To me that'd be a hardware store, a pharmacy, some kind of a public park/garden, a library and shops for groceries/postal services, and access to basic health care. Luckily I already live in such a neighbourhood; as this applies to most european towns (I grew up in a small town and now I'm living at one with 70k inhabitants).
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Discussion about the path towards 15 minute cities. Post examples and discuss about how to make this a reality!
From Wikipedia: The 15-minute city is an urban planning concept in which most daily necessities and services, such as work, shopping, education, healthcare, and leisure can be easily reached by a 15-minute walk, bike ride, or public transit ride from any point in the city. This approach aims to reduce car dependency, promote healthy and sustainable living, and improve wellbeing and quality of life for city dwellers.
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Within 15 minutes' biking distance:
A gym
A dedicated 'third place' - like a community center or something else dedicated to socializing outside work and the home.
I actually live in this already. In 15 minutes I can get to: groceries, pharmacies, school, daycare, after-school club, library, postal services, train station, bus routes, mechanic, restaurants, public pool, hairdresser, hardware store, our general practitioner. The hospital is also within 15 minutes but that’s kind of random. Just a little outside that range is a shopping center.
Unfortunately i work further away but my husband walks to work.
Same here. I've been living here for a year, I feel so happy compared to previously.
Bakery, Gym, post office
A few parks/open spaces, a venue (for comedy acts, concerts, sportsball games, etc), train station to go to other cities, gym, ... I'm sure there's a lot more, but that's what came to mind
Pharmacy - both for prescriptions and for general over-the-counter stuff. Being able to walk to ours has been great.
Hardware store - our closest is a drive or train ride away.
Library, there's a ton of good resources available even beyond book and movie rentals.
In an ideal world, some kind of makerspace would be awesome - if just to access tools I don't have and talk over my projects with someone. Even better if we could set up some kind of lumber swap shed - a lot of usable wood from people's projects, construction seconds etc, gets thrown away around here, and I can only store so much. I think this one is big if we want to encourage people to fix things rather than throw it out and buy new.
When we were walking distance to a local movie theater, that turned out to be a highlight of living there but it's definitely more of a luxury.
I would wish for a public swimming pool / public indoor swimming pool closer by, but I have everything else mentioned in this thread already in my neighborhood, so that's the one thing I have not in reach of 15 minutes, but need 45 minutes with public transport and as long by car (which I don't have).