The 15-Minute City: Myths and Mods for Suburbia

Designers and planners often write off suburbs as hopeless places. We can and must do better because more than 175 million people in the United States live in suburbs.

Learn how to apply the principles of the 15-Minute City to established suburban communities. A 15-Minute City organizes a community's housing, work, and amenities within a 15-minute walk or short bike ride. This is a great goal for places with good urban “bones," but is not easily transferred to suburban contexts, although it is not impossible.

One Atlanta-region county has piloted an innovative translation of the 15-Minute City concept into a model that acknowledges its suburban roots and lifestyles, but incrementally works toward a more livable, community-centered pattern of development. Find out how a future land use framework that focuses on creating "Daily Communities" was developed (and can be replicated in other communities). The Daily Community is a mode-agnostic, suburb-friendly model that focuses on more efficient land uses, enables more diverse housing types, seeds a true sense of place, and shifts short trips out of cars and onto sidewalks, while still respecting the suburban lifestyles many people want and enjoy.

Wordly AI Closed Caption Link