The 15-minute city concept aims to make essential amenities reachable within a 15-minute walk or bike ride from home.
If effectively implemented, this could promote sustainable transportation, foster vibrant urban environments, and reduce vehicular congestion and emissions.
from people across 420 US cities to assess how close we are to this ideal.
15-minute city signatures
Color indicates the percentage of trips in each neighborhood that fall within 15 minutes.
Length shows the total number of trips taken in each neighborhood.
New York
Population: 19.8M
Boston
Population: 4.3M
Atlanta
Population: 6.1M
Neighborhoods with higher amenity access also have higher 15-minute trip rates
Our research also highlights potential socio-economic challenges of the 15-minute city.
In lower-income neighborhoods, local living may increase segregation by limiting
exposure to socio economically diverse interactions.
Harness the 15-minute index to shape walkable, livable cities.
Principal investigator
Edward Glaeser Harvard University
Research
Timur Abbiasov
Cate Heine
Sadegh Sabouri
Arianna Salazar-Miranda
Paolo Santi
Visualization
Diego Morra (lead)
Arianna Salazar-Miranda
Fábio Duarte
In collaboration with
Center for Design, Northeastern University
Pedro Cruz (Lead)
Nicholas Pietrinferno
For more information
Publication
Abbiasov, T., Heine, C., Sabouri, S., Salazar-Miranda, A., Santi, P., Glaeser, E., & Ratti, C. (2024). The 15-minute city quantified using human mobility data. Nature Human Behaviour.