Kathleen E.’s Reviews > Shrink the City: The 15-Minute Urban Experiment and the Cities of the Future > Status Update
Kathleen E.
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"The average distance of an American commuting trip has changed little at about ten miles, but the speed has decreased from nearly forty miles an hour in the early 1980s to less than thirty miles an hour in 2017. The roads are getting slower and more congested..."
— Feb 17, 2025 06:54AM
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Kathleen E.
is on page 98 of 192
"[Looking at Arizona as an example, in the context of rising temperatures] In the very worst version of what a 15-minute city might mean, something along these lines could emerge as the only option. For personal safety from intolerable temperatures, a quarter of an hour would be the only practicable time frame in which to carry out daily errands."
— Feb 17, 2025 06:58AM
Kathleen E.
is on page 80 of 192
"Pre-pandemic Manhattan would see its population more than double during the day, with 1.64 million people using trains, buses, and ferries to show up for work on the island. There are also more than four hundred subway stations and a ridership of around 1.6 billion people per year... 52 percent of the daytime Manhattan population, according to census data, are commuters..."
— Feb 17, 2025 06:56AM
