Local Living and Travel Time based Urbanism

ABSTRACT

The concept of local living, whether in the form of 10-, 15-, 20- or 30-minute cities or walkable and healthy neighbourhoods, has become a central theme of Australian planning strategies. It is used to achieve a number of important objectives ranging from sustainability, public health, community and economic development. Despite the common use of this catch-all phrase, there are inconsistencies in its definition, underlying assumptions and objectives, its shaping of planning policy and the instruments used to measure its successful implementation. This paper provides a comparative international overview of the ways in which these more broadly-framed local living policies have been framed, and how they have been incorporated into strategic metropolitan plans for Australia’s capital cities. It is evident that approaches differ greatly, in terms of policy aims, objectives, their relationships to planning practice and other sectors and measures used to assess the success of implementation. The paper examines the salient differences and commonalities in these methodologies with a discussion of their implications for policy and research within varying socio-cultural and spatial contexts. It concludes with a discussion of the need for more specific and target-oriented strategies to overcome the implementation challenges in countries with car-dominated cities such as Australia.

摘要

当地生活的概念，无论是10分钟、15分钟、20分钟还是30分钟的城市形式，还是可步行的健康街区，都已成为澳大利亚规划战略的核心主题。它被用来实现一些重要的目标，包括可持续性、公共卫生、社区和经济发展。尽管这个万用名词被普遍使用，但在其定义、基本假设和目标、规划政策的形成以及用于衡量其成功实施的工具方面却存在不一致。本文提供了一个比较全面的国际概述，介绍了这些更广泛的地方生活政策的制定方式，以及如何将其纳入澳大利亚首都城市的战略都市计划。显然，在政策目的、目标、它们与规划实践的关系以及用于评估实施成功与否的其他部门和措施方面，各种方法有很大不同。本文探讨了这些方法的显著差异和共同点，并讨论了它们在不同社会文化和空间背景下对政策和研究的影响。本文最后讨论了在澳大利亚这样以汽车为主的国家，需要更具体和有针对性的战略来克服实施的挑战。

KEYWORDS:

• Local living
• proximity
• transport and land use
• sustainable mobility
• travel time

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