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How about not spending several hours every day commuting to and from work, driving children to extracurricular activities and doing shopping? And how about not driving tens of kilometers on the weekend looking for a place to rest outside the city? Utopia? Not necessarily. 15-minute cities are a solution.<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A year and eight months over the entire professional life, over 415 hours a year, nearly 35 hours a month and over 8 hours a week \u2013 this is how much time the inhabitants of Warsaw spend on average in their cars commuting to work 5 days a week.\u00a0The situation is just slightly better in other big cities, such as Cracow, Poznan or Wroclaw. It is no surprise that during the COVID-19 pandemic, when most companies decided to switch to remote work, not having to commute to offices, which are often located in districts far away from a place of residence, every single day, many people felt a huge relief and appreciated the time they saved for themselves and their relatives. However, it is not a solution to congested agglomerations in the long term. This is why the concept of 15-minute cities has been increasingly popular, particularly recently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

History of the concept<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

What is the idea of a 15-minute city actually about \u2013 where does it originate and is it possible to implement it under any conditions?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the first time, it was presented in 2016 by Professor Carlos Moreno from Columbia who works at Paris-Sorbonne University. Initially, it referred to Paris, more specifically, freeing the banks of the Seine from motor traffic. Although nearly all urban planners and people designing and planning space and investments in cities, including in Poland, have managed to familiarize themselves with the concept since then, it has become much more popular over the last two years when the world, due to the pandemic, started to pay considerably more attention to lifestyle and a way of living, work-life balance as well as the possibility of ensuring safety of city inhabitants by providing them with access to extended networks of bicycle paths or more extensive green areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The main assumption of the 15-minute city concept is that everything that a human being needs for everyday activities:<\/p>\n\n\n\n