The idea that cities should be designed around 15 minute hubs, where you should be able to walk to everything you need (job, grocery, school, hospital, restaurants, etc) within 15 minutes. From Paris's new plans to Barcelona's superblocks, it looks like cities across Europe at least are beginning to catch on to how appealing this way of living is. Thoughts on how to apply this to cities outside of Europe?
EDIT: The discussion going on here is fantastic and I love you all :heart-sickle:
No doubt it'd be a Herculean task, but this concept should be possible at least in densely-settled metro areas that already have some existing public transportation infrastructure. Extending this concept beyond the major cities would take a massive Green New Deal level of public infrastructure investment and overhaul, a national project likely costing hundreds of billions of USD, a scale on par with that of (and possibly replacing/superseding) the Eisenhower interstate highway infrastructure project.
Yeah which is why in the United States it's never going to happen, sadly.
Fewer people in the US are driving cars than in previous decades. The country is getting more urban by the year. Demand for this sort of thing is going up.