Tuesday, October 26, 2021

THE 15-MINUTE CITY

OLD-FASHIONED COMPACT, CONVENIENT, MIXED-USE DEVELOPMENT FOR A MODERN, POST PANDEMIC, WALKABLE WORLD

Strong Towns Senior Editor Daniel Herriges emphasizes that the 15-minute neighborhood saves cities the high cost of maintaining sprawl.

“It's important to remember that the cost premium for compact, mixed-use neighborhoods is largely a function of artificial scarcity, he said.

“Fifteen-minute neighborhoods, and the kinds of housing that work well in them, are not expensive to create or maintain.

They often have high real-estate values only because they are very popular and we haven't built enough of them in the last few decades.

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