The 20-minute neighbourhood idea makes it a little easier to conceptualise and align spatial planning (homes and services) with transport planning (the infrastructure), so that it can be designed to make it easier for people to walk, cycle or access public transport as easy alternatives to using the motor car.
It may even be possible to to devise use cases whereby services and amenities are be shared more efficiently between neighbourhoods, depending on the population density or its dispersal in an area.
Let’s take an example in Dunbar. Say you live on Lochend Road, exactly how far can you cycle in 10 or 20 minutes?
In these dynamic examples we use our very own map tool uses the mapbox api. Modify the mapbox code, and we can now drag the marker to a given location, while modifying the walk, cycle or drive time by any interval you like or even add location search, in our case restricted to anywhere in East Lothian.
Here is the Long Read, which might take you a lot longer than 20 minutes …
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