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The #15MinuteCity: putting people at the center of urban transformation. Posts by Dan Luscher.

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15-Minute City @15minutecity.com · 06/04/2026
Mahon Point shopping mall near Cork, Ireland is planning a mixed-use expansion inspired by the 15-minute city concept. mahonpointexpansion.ie/about/
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About - Mahon Point Expansion
What is Mahon Point 2.0? As we celebrate our 20th anniversary, we are embarking on a new and exciting phase. Imminently we will submit a mixed-use planning application to Cork City Council that will c...
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15-Minute City @15minutecity.com · 27/03/2026
Safety first, preferences second: Andy Boenau on why Americans need to stop putting every street safety improvement up for public referendum. www.urbanismspeakeasy.com/p/public-inp...
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Public input can be a death sentence
Putting a safety improvement up for a vote is dangerous when the voters have been conditioned to see traffic violence as inevitable.
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15-Minute City @15minutecity.com · 02/01/2026
The Unfinished Metropolis by @benschneider.bsky.social was one of my favorite 2025 urbanism reads, filled with real examples of how the U.S. is relearning how to make cities work for people. islandpress.org/books/unfini...
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The Unfinished Metropolis
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15-Minute City @15minutecity.com · 17/11/2025
The best way to upzone is to upzone everywhere. That's how you get organic, bottom-up growth that enriches places where people already live.
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15-Minute City @15minutecity.com · 17/11/2025
Sausalito, California votes for more housing but in a very concentrated area, which means "they are going to have towers in Sausalito. The thing they have tried so hard to avoid is the thing they ended up doing to themselves.” www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
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Sausalito’s vote for more housing could create the unthinkable: Urban density in Marin County
The influx of development would mean radical change for the city on the water, which permitted just 58 housing units between 2015 and 2022.
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15-Minute City @15minutecity.com · 12/11/2025
"'Chipotlanes' - drive-thru lanes for digital order pickup - are appearing not only along suburban arterials but also within residential and mixed-use areas." Umm, no - drive-thru lanes are not a 15-minute city strategy. rebusinessonline.com/quick-servic...
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Quick-Service Restaurants Are Powering the Rise of the 15-Minute City
By Casey Smallwood of SRS Real Estate Partners The quick-service restaurant (QSR) industry is reshaping retail real estate by capitalizing on the “15-minute city” trend — a movement where people can a...
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15-Minute City @15minutecity.com · 10/11/2025
New blog post: Emergent Tokyo shows how great cities are built - not from the top down but from the bottom up. www.15minutecity.com/blog/tokyo
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Book review: Emergent Tokyo — 15-Minute City
Great cities are built not from the top down but from the bottom up.
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15-Minute City @15minutecity.com · 07/11/2025
Thought-provoking piece on cities and abundance by "Radical Adaptation" author Brian Stone Jr. "We must do more than expedite our permitting processes; we must reimagine urbanization." www.noemamag.com/the-abundanc...
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The Abundance Movement’s Blind Spot | NOEMA
What if Americans care more about the cost of climate disasters than carbon-free energy?
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15-Minute City @15minutecity.com · 29/09/2025
In the U.S., it's #WeekWithoutDriving starting today!
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Kyle Paoletta @kpaoletta.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Thanks so much, Dan! Really thrilled to hear you enjoyed the book — you're totally right that the 15-minute city ideal lines up with what I'm calling for.
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15-Minute City @15minutecity.com · 02/07/2025
Paoletta’s antidote is fully consistent with the 15-minute city playbook: "To survive the twenty-first century, we'll have to return to traditions of cohabitation and fellowship, fostering an interdependent community in recognition of the inherent limits of any place we hope to call home." 3/3
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15-Minute City @15minutecity.com · 02/07/2025
"It's ludicrous for developers to build new subdivisions thirty miles from downtown Phoenix while neighborhoods that are little more than fifty years old degenerate into a patchwork of clearings." 2/3
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15-Minute City @15minutecity.com · 02/07/2025
I just finished reading American Oasis and am absorbing Kyle Paoletta's scathing critiques of development patterns in the American Southwest that are STILL ONGOING @kpaoletta.bsky.social 1/3
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American Oasis — Kyle Paoletta
Preorder "American Oasis: Finding the Future in the Cities of the Southwest," coming January 14, 2025 from Pantheon.
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15-Minute City @15minutecity.com · 25/06/2025
Less asphalt, more life: an eloquent call for better urban planning in Nigeria by Caroline Bos of UNStudio
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Less Asphalt, More Life: A bold future of urban mobility
Earlier this year, the urban planning world lost a giant. Donald Shoup, the Distinguished Professor known for transforming how we think about cities and cars, passed away.
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15-Minute City @15minutecity.com · 19/06/2025
"I’ve fallen in love with San Francisco again by riding my bike,” says baseball announcer / bike commuter Dave Flemming. @peterhartlaub.bsky.social @SFchronicle.com www.sfchronicle.com/totalsf/arti...
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San Francisco’s most famous bike commuter? This Giants broadcaster
In the broadcast booth Dave Flemming is a composed professional. On his bike pedaling through San Francisco to Oracle Park another side emerges: unabashed fan.
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15-Minute City @15minutecity.com · 23/04/2025
"Gearheads owe it to themselves to consider the environmental and social costs that their preferred mode exacts on cities."
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15-Minute City @15minutecity.com · 23/04/2025
We need more Matt Farahs who understand the difference between car enthusiasm and car dependence. Another great piece from @davidzipper.bsky.social
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Why Car YouTuber Matt Farah Is Fighting for Walkable Cities
The outspoken host of “The Smoking Tire” videos and podcasts has become an unlikely advocate for urban transportation policy reforms that limit car use.
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15-Minute City @15minutecity.com · 18/04/2025
"We’re not building cities. We are scaling the power of people to reshape them." A fantastic philosophy articulated by David Miet of urban design firm Villes Vivantes. Check them out.
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Villes Vivantes, start up d'urbanisme
BIMBY, BAMBA, BUNTI, BRAMBLE : 4 innovations deep tech pour vivifier nos villages, faire grandir nos villes et vibrer nos métropoles !
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15-Minute City @15minutecity.com · 16/04/2025
Gayle King, for example, looks like she'd rather be jumping on a bike than boarding a spacecraft.
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15-Minute City @15minutecity.com · 16/04/2025
@carltonreid.com's mic drop is on point: "Billionaires should jump on bicycles, not spacecraft."
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15-Minute City @15minutecity.com · 16/04/2025
Regular cycling is even better for you than you might think: Scottish study indicates that bike commuting reduces "all-cause mortality" by about half.
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18-Year Study Of 82,297 Adults Finds Cycle Commuting Halves Chance Of Early Death
Billionaires famously want to live longer. They should jump on bicycles, not spacecraft.
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15-Minute City @15minutecity.com · 14/04/2025
Protected bike lanes help everyone, not just cyclists.
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Martijon @martijon.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Why can’t we have nice things? Aren’t we the greatest, most prosperous nation in history?
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15-Minute City @15minutecity.com · 14/04/2025
I'm neck-deep in the supply-side-focused Abundance world, but @davidzipper.bsky.social is (as usual) 100% right: for transportation, "simply uncorking more construction could be a prescription worse than the disease. The goal should be not just building more, but building smarter."
bloomberg.com
What Would ‘Transportation Abundance’ Look Like?
Fans of the abundance movement say that adding supply solves big problems in housing and health care. But when it comes to getting around, things get complicated.
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15-Minute City @15minutecity.com · 11/04/2025
New blog post: the evidence is clear - demand for homes in walkable neighborhoods in the United States outstrips supply by a factor of 4 or more.
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The huge unmet demand for walkable places — 15-Minute City
The evidence is clear: demand for homes in walkable neighborhoods in the United States outstrips supply by a factor of 4 or more.
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15-Minute City @15minutecity.com · 01/04/2025
Effective today, we are pivoting to focus our efforts on the #15HourCity, which "represents what we think are all the best qualities of a modern city: a lack of social connections [and] a profound sense of alienation." @mcsweeneys.net #freedom www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/int...
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Introducing the 15-Hour City
“The 15-minute city principle suggests you should have your daily needs—work, food, healthcare, education, culture, and leisure—within a 15-minute ...
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15-Minute City @15minutecity.com · 21/03/2025
Love this quote from Charles Marohn's "Confessions of a Recovering Engineer": "A culture of walking and biking...is an egalitarian culture, one where the functional gap between social classes shrinks. Rich and poor alike walk on two feet." @clmarohn.bsky.social @strongtowns.org
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Confessions of a Recovering Engineer
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15-Minute City @15minutecity.com · 19/03/2025
From the ever-quotable jeffspeck.bsky.social: "I frankly don’t need any more research on what is walkable or on what makes walkability important. It’s all so damn obvious. What we need now are more quick paths to the hoop - replicable successes that can spur action in communities..."
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Jeff Speck on 'Walkable City' - Pedestrian Space
We recently finished Walkable City by Jeff Speck, an absolutely essential read and now highly valued reference in our library. We thank Jeff for taking time forContinue Reading
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15-Minute City @15minutecity.com · 12/03/2025
Transforming cities often boils down to governments saying "yes" rather than "no:" Mayor Paul Young has declared this Memphis's "Era of Yes."
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‘YES’ MAN: Mayor Young declares ‘Era of Yes’ in optimistic State of the City address - TSDMemphis.com
Memphis Mayor Paul Young is a “YES” man. He basically said so himself. For his 2025 State of the City Address, not only did he have the words “YES” lit up in front and behind him, he was bold enough t...
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15-Minute City @15minutecity.com · 26/02/2025
I’m featured in the latest episode of DW’s Living Planet podcast, talking about walkable cities and 15-minute city conspiracy theories. Also featured is @lindsaysturman.bsky.social. Have a listen!
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Who's scared of 15-minute cities? – DW – 02/21/2025
Imagine a city where everything - work, shopping, schools, and parks - is just 15 minutes away. Is this the key to a greener, more convenient future or a threat to personal freedom?
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15-Minute City @15minutecity.com · 11/02/2025
Most public opinion surveys find that about half of Americans would prefer to live in a smaller house in a more walkable neighborhood, and according to a Kinder Institute survey in Houston, that desire is strongest in the exurbs.
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15-Minute City @15minutecity.com · 10/02/2025
Bill Fulton: "We simply haven’t built enough 15-minute neighborhoods in the United States." @futureofwhere.bsky.social
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The 15-Minute City Is Great For Those Who Can Afford It
But most people who work in a 15-minute neighborhood can’t afford to live there. We have to build more 15-minute neighborhoods to meet demand and make sure at least some housing in them is affordable.
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15-Minute City @15minutecity.com · 27/01/2025
The DeepSeek hubbub today reminds me of my favorite Jaime Lerner quote: “If you want creativity, cut one zero from the budget. If you want sustainability, cut two zeros.”
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15-Minute City @15minutecity.com · 17/01/2025
Naturally affordable housing through streamlined approvals and standard plans: lessons for the U.S. from Vienna and Paris from Gerhard Mayer and @lindsaysturman.bsky.social in Common Edge.
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A Radical (and Totally Practical) Rethinking of U.S. Housing Construction
Vienna and Paris demonstrate that there are easier, less-expensive ways to build homes.
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15-Minute City @15minutecity.com · 17/01/2025
Yes, deregulation.
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15-Minute City @15minutecity.com · 06/01/2025
Fantastic closing quote from AnnaZivarts (@nondriver.bsky.social): "We need to get the voices of those who can’t drive – disabled people, seniors, immigrants, poor folks – into the room because the people making decisions drive everywhere."
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15-Minute City @15minutecity.com · 06/01/2025
The key distinction: having a car can make you happier; being dependent on it does not.
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15-Minute City @15minutecity.com · 06/01/2025
A 30-hectare brownfield site in Lisbon - a former gasworks - will be redeveloped consistent with 15-minute city principles. via Portugal Today News
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Lisbon's Matinha Project: A €2 Billion Transformation of an Abandoned Industrial Site
Exciting news for Lisbon! The Matinha project is set to transform an abandoned industrial site into a vibrant community with 2,000 new homes and extensive green spaces. A €2 billion investment that pr...
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15-Minute City @15minutecity.com · 30/12/2024
The obvious flip side of walking/biking making you happier and healthier: being car-dependent makes you cranky. From Oliver Milman in @theguardian.com.
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How extreme car dependency is driving Americans to unhappiness
A car is often essential in the US but while owning a vehicle is better than not for life satisfaction, a study has found, having to drive too much sends happiness plummeting
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Jonathan Berk 🏠 @berkie1.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
A reminder that “density” is not “overcrowding.” More density (even modest density) = less overcrowding.
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15-Minute City @15minutecity.com · 30/12/2024
Still more evidence on the huge health benefits of creating bikeable communities.
forbes.com
18-Year Study Of 82,297 Adults Finds Cycle Commuting Halves Chance Of Early Death
Billionaires famously want to live longer. They should jump on bicycles, not spacecraft.
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15-Minute City @15minutecity.com · 19/12/2024
233,000 views in 6 days for a YouTube video that deep-dives into academic sociology papers and spends several minutes describing RUCA codes. There is hope for the world! Keep doing your thing, Ray.
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15-Minute City @15minutecity.com · 19/12/2024
Sadly, an evergreen meme.
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15-Minute City @15minutecity.com · 19/12/2024
And just so we aren't just relying on one study in one city, a study of cycle network construction in Oslo found health benefits of $22,000/QALY. Higher than $1,300 but still much lower than most direct health interventions. (Image is from @multimodalexplorer.bsky.social's YouTube channel.)
Christian Michelsens gate protected bike lane, Oslo
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15-Minute City @15minutecity.com · 19/12/2024
Let's go Cleveland - bike infrastructure is one of the cheapest ways to make a city better, in ALL kinds of climates. via News 5 Cleveland
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'I get it, but I'm worried,' Ohio City businesses brace for Lorain Midway
Ohio City business owners are worried about losing parking and fear that work on the project will directly impact their future.
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15-Minute City @15minutecity.com · 19/12/2024
At $1,300 per QALY (in econ-speak), bike lakes are an incredibly cheap investment in public health, much cheaper than many direct medical interventions. For example, New York's Medicaid program costs $67,000 per QALY, and dialysis is $129,000 per QALY.
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deety3 @deety3.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
I'll have to return to Copenhagen to experience this!
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15-Minute City @15minutecity.com · 17/12/2024
The Nordhavn district of Copenhagen has been developed as a 5-minute city, aimed at social sustainability as much as environmental. By @steverose7.bsky.social in @theguardian.com.
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The five-minute city: inside Denmark’s revolutionary neighbourhood
While ambitious urban planners try to make 15-minute cities a reality, the Nordhavn district of Copenhagen has gone one better. What’s life like when everything you need is just a stroll away?
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15-Minute City @15minutecity.com · 15/12/2024
"Whitty urged policy makers to 'design cities in such a way that they enhance health through decisions on transport, housing, schooling, food policy, licencing and pollution.'”
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15-Minute City @15minutecity.com · 15/12/2024
And this riposte to the conspiracy theorists: “'Those who oppose specific evidence-based solutions should feel a responsibility to say what they would do instead to preserve the health of their fellow citizens,' said Professor Whitty."
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