The 20-minute city: An equity analysis of Liverpool City Region

Alessia Calafiore; Richard Dunning; Alex Nurse; Alex Singleton

doi:10.1016/j.trd.2021.103111

The 20-minute city: An equity analysis of Liverpool City Region

Alessia Calafiore^*, Richard Dunning, Alex Nurse, Alex Singleton

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Edinburgh College of Art

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The 20-minute city has become a popular urban planning policy to support low-transport neighbourhoods. Whilst meeting residents’ needs in local neighbourhoods is not a new concept, urban and transportation planners are increasingly being tasked with re-structuring transport and public services to facilitate people ‘living locally’. The existence of a 20-minute city is seen as a signifier of urban success and has taken on political acknowledgement through the pandemic, yet existing spatial inequalities contribute to the daunting headwinds in making active travel support an equitable city. In this paper, we provide a novel approach to identify where 20-minute neighbourhoods might exist within a large city region and assess how their existence aligns with socio-spatial inequalities.

Original language	English
Article number	103111
Number of pages	16
Journal	Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment
Volume	102
Early online date	4 Dec 2021
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trd.2021.103111
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 4 Dec 2021

Keywords

20-minute city
accessibility
social equity
transportation planning

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