15 MIN CITY
This American city created “20-minute neighborhoods” as part of its Climate Action Plan, aiming to provide everyday needs within walking distance
What is Portland, Oregon?
This model aims to manage urban resources collaboratively with communities, government, and other urban actors
What is the Co-City model?
In 1974, this was the first city in the US to remove a highway and replace it with a waterfront park
What is Portland Oregon?
This discipline, according to Peter Buchanan, is responsible for shaping the connective tissue of cities—streets, public spaces, and relationships—not just buildings
What is urban design?
According to Duany & Steuteville, this mode of travel defines the size of the 15-minute city—not cars or transit
What are walking and bicycling?
She considers the city a commons because urban resources can be shared, co-designed, and co-governed
Who is Sheila Foster?
The production of this type of vehicle currently generates more carbon emissions than standard combustion engine vehicles
What is electric vehicles?
Buchanan argues that cities must restore this quality—an experiential condition that makes places socially rich, walkable, and comfortable for people
What is human scale?
A minimum gross density of this many dwellings per acre is needed to support a functioning 15-minute city
What are 8 dwellings per acre?
This situation occurs when a neighborhood, the city government, and a university all work together to manage a public space
What is collective governance?
18,640 miles travelled is the average per person per year motorized travel distance in this developed nation
What is the United States?
Any three psycho-cultural needs
What are Dignity, Meaning, Fulfillment, Identity or Opportunity?
This European city uses “Superblocks” to reduce car traffic and prioritize public space within 9-block grids
What is Barcelona?
Her key insight is that communities can successfully govern shared resources when clear rules and cooperation are present
Who is Elinor Ostrom?
The number of miles of bike lanes in NYC
What are 1550 miles?
This phenomenon—an outcome of zoning, highways, and car-oriented planning—is criticized by Buchanan for creating fragmented, lifeless urban environments
What is urban sprawl?
This term describes the smallest transportation shed, a quarter-mile radius where daily needs like cafés and corner stores should be accessible by foot
What is a 5-minute walk shed?
These are the 5 Co-City principles
What are Collective Governance, Enabling State, Social & Economic Pooling, Experimentalism, Tech Justice?
This bill was passed by the House of Representatives in 2020 and requires recipients of federal transportation funding to measure how well their system connects people to the things they need, regardless of how they travel
What is The Moving Forward Act?
Buchanan emphasizes that cities must shift from being car-dependent to being modeled on this kind of natural, interdependent system
What is an ecological system?