What can you get to within a 15-minute walk of your house?

A recent YouGov survey asked Americans what they think they should be able to get to within a 15-minute walk of their house.

Of these choices, I can currently walk to all of them from my apartment, aside from a university (no biggie, I’m not currently studying, although there is a Tafe within walking distance), a hospital, and a sports arena.

How many can you get to with a 15 minute walk from your house?

#fuckcars #walkability #urbanism #UrbanPlanning @fuck_cars #walking

  • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works
    51·
    10 months ago

    I grew up in a village of 3000 in rural England. We had three pubs, a post office, two grocery/general stores, a butcher, a baker, a village hall, a doctor and a pharmacy, a primary and a secondary school, a church…

    that is how life used to be for the majority of people across the world.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
      24·
      10 months ago

      Great. I don’t live in a village. I live out in the country. Are you saying we should chop down the woods and pave over the farm fields so that I can walk to a bunch of shops?

      • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        10 months ago

        You can’t give me half an ultimatum. Not that this is necessarily a dichotomy - but in this scenario you are setting up I don’t understand what you’re framing as the “good” option if the “bad” options is build a local shop?

        • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
          12·
          10 months ago

          I would say the good option would be to not pave over nature and farms for convenience’s sake.

          • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works
            2·
            10 months ago

            so in your world view there is only “pave over farms” and “not”

            what about drained marshland, deserts, tundra, non arable land, protected green spaces, farrow…

            if there are only farms and pavement are you saying that suburbia doesn’t exist? Are you saying that commuter belts are a fiction?

            • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
              21·
              10 months ago

              There are only farms and woods around me.

              If you want to pave over the Sahara, go for it. I don’t want the countryside I am around paved over so that people can buy a Twinkie at 2 am.

              • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works
                2·
                10 months ago

                and there is no point within a two-mile radius of any property boundary where you live where you could build a single shop?

                • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
                  11·
                  10 months ago

                  Without cutting down trees or paving over farm fields? No. Why are you so intent on nature being destroyed for the sake of capitalism?