Planning Innovation or City Branding? Exploring How Cities Operationalise the 20-Minute Neighbourhood Concept

ABSTRACT

Cities worldwide are increasingly adopting the 20-minute neighbourhood concept within broader sustainable urban development strategies. However, there is limited understanding of how the concept has been operationalised in cities that have adopted the concept nor of the outcomes to offer guidance to new locations considering uptake. This paper reports on a content evaluation of how the 20-minute neighbourhood concept has been operationalised in planning documents of the 33 cities worldwide that have adopted or are considering the concept. A general lack of implementation with measurability nor statutory policy weight to support planners to enact the concept in practice was found.

抽象的

世界各地的城市越来越多地采用 20 分钟街区更广泛的可持续城市发展战略中的概念。然而，人们对该概念的理解有限在已采用该概念的城市中实施结果为考虑吸收的新地点提供指导。 这关于 20 分钟的内容评估的论文报告邻里概念已在规划中实施全球 33 个城市已通过或正在实施的文件考虑到这个概念。普遍缺乏实施支持规划者制定的可衡量性或法定政策权重在实践中发现了这个概念。

KEYWORDS:

• 20-minute neighbourhoods
• chrono-urbanism
• city branding
• planning concepts
• policy implementation

Disclosure Statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

Notes

1 While different cities employ similar concepts, we use the 20-minute concept because it is the most common in the plans under study.

2 Refer to Table 1 for a list of the cities that have adopted the 20-minute concept.

Additional information

Funding

This work was supported by the Melbourne Experiment, Monash University.