The 15 minute city concept has received a lot of attention from major players Melbourne, Paris, London and Oxford. We wanted to understand how the distribution of services across the city region impacted on the equity of people living in different parts of the city. The equity analysis did show very stark variations across Liverpool city region with some neighbourhoods already firmly within the 15 minute city category. Down to locations around Liverpool that had less than two or three of those services available to them. For example, black and minority ethnic groups were more likely to live outside high accessibility neighbourhoods.
Madeleine Finlay speaks to the Guardian’s architecture and design critic, Oliver Wainwright, about why the relatively obscure concept of the 15-minute city has become a magnet for conspiracy theories in recent weeks. And hears from Dr Richard Dunning about how the theory can be implemented in a way that’s fair to all residents. Help support our independent journalism at
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