Read more about the event here: https://jpi-urbaneurope.eu/event-calendar/urban-lunch-talk-18-the-15-minutes-city-dos-donts-and-dilemmas/
15-minute cities – Rethinking the Urban Mobility System and Space
Concepts for the 15 Minute City are gaining traction throughout Europe and the world. Amplified by urban vulnerabilities and weaknesses which have been highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic, rethinking urban areas along the principles of the 15 Minute City has been illustrated as one central pathway towards sustainability and liveability. The 15 Minute City is one priority of the upcoming Driving Urban Transitions Partnership which JPI Urban Europe is currently designing. The partnership proposes to follow the vision of the 15-minute city as a way towards a holistic, people-oriented, and challenge-driven perspective for the redesign of urban mobility and planning.
Facing the climate crisis, we need to take action now and cannot wait longer to find “perfect solutions”. Instead, taking measures into implementation and practice must be at the top of the list. Although many technological solutions to drastically lower GHG-emissions already exist, the institutional and regulatory surrounding is often lagging or simply not in place yet, thus blocking a shift towards sustainable individual behaviour.
But it isn’t that simple. Everyone who is somehow involved in city development knows about the wicked issues that emerge from strategic decision making in this context. In a changing, interconnected and hyper-complex environment urban practitioners and strategists often encounter dilemmas; having to decide between two or more alternatives that seem equally desirable or undesirable. Dilemmas occur where the level of uncertainty is too high to rely on a pre-calculated action plan.
What are the dilemmas involved in realising 15 min cities – where lies the friction and the conflict of trade-offs?
What traps can or should we avoid – what are the “don’ts”?
Which are the enablers – the “do’s”?
