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15 Minute City
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Discussion about the path towards 15 minute cities. Post examples and discuss about how to make this a reality!
From Wikipedia: The 15-minute city is an urban planning concept in which most daily necessities and services, such as work, shopping, education, healthcare, and leisure can be easily reached by a 15-minute walk, bike ride, or public transit ride from any point in the city. This approach aims to reduce car dependency, promote healthy and sustainable living, and improve wellbeing and quality of life for city dwellers.
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Pharmacy - both for prescriptions and for general over-the-counter stuff. Being able to walk to ours has been great.
Hardware store - our closest is a drive or train ride away.
Library, there's a ton of good resources available even beyond book and movie rentals.
In an ideal world, some kind of makerspace would be awesome - if just to access tools I don't have and talk over my projects with someone. Even better if we could set up some kind of lumber swap shed - a lot of usable wood from people's projects, construction seconds etc, gets thrown away around here, and I can only store so much. I think this one is big if we want to encourage people to fix things rather than throw it out and buy new.
When we were walking distance to a local movie theater, that turned out to be a highlight of living there but it's definitely more of a luxury.