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?
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It looks very similar to the Soviet concept of "mikrorayon".
Hit me up with some theory/reading on this, sounds great.
This is a pretty good video on Soviet urban planning.
It's common to virtually every left urban planning plan from the 20th century. Interestingly there were both urban and suburban communist city planning theories going around. The socialist register this past year had a really good essay on the suburban communist planners, and arguing for a revival of them.
I wonder if there any studies on the efficacy of microdistricts. Like even just polls of people living and working in them versus those in conventional districts - it's nice to read about them and understand the logic but I'd like to get the general perspective of people having to live there 24/7.