30-Minute City
Subtitle: Designing for Access
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: 2019
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781650232096
Description: This book describes how to implement The 30-Minute City.  The first part of the book explains accessibility. We next consider access through history (chapter 2). Access is the driving force behind how cities were built. Its use today is described when looking at access and the Greater Sydney Commission’s plan for Sydney.

We then examine short-run fixes: things that can be done instantaneously, or nearly so, at low budget to restore access for people, which include retiming traffic signals (chapter 3) and deploying bike sharing (chapter 5) supported by protected bike lane networks (chapter 4), as well public transport timetables (chapter 6).

We explore medium-run fixes that include implementing rapid bus networks (chapter 7) and configuring how people get to train stations by foot and on bus (chapter 8).

We turn to longer-run fixes. These are as much policy changes as large investments, and include job/worker balance (chapter 10) and network restructuring (chapter 9) as well as urban restoration (chapter 11), suburban retrofit (chapter 12), and greenfield development (chapter 13).

We conclude with thoughts about the ‘pointlessness’ of cities and how to restructure practice (chapter 14).

The appendices provide detail on access measurement (Appendix A), the idea of accessibility loss (B), valuation (C), the rationale for the 30-minute threshold (D), and reliability (E). It concludes with what should we research (F).
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: 1  Introduction 15; title: 2  The 30-Minute City: Then and Now 19; title: 3  Traffic Signals 25; title: 4  On the Four Paths 29; title: 5  Bikesharing 35; title: 6  Timetable 37; title: 7  Rapid Bus 39; title: 8  Interface 45; title: 9  Gradial: Or the Unreasonable Network 51; title: 10  Job-Worker Balance 55; title: 11  Urban Restoration 59; title: 12  Retrofit 69; title: 13  Greenfields and Brownfields 75; title: 14  A New Profession: Urban Operations 81; title: Appendices; title: A  Theory 89; title: B  Accessibility Loss 93; title: C  Access Explains Everything 95; title: D  Why 30 Minutes? 97; title: E  Reliability 99; title: F  Research Agenda 101