Day: October 20, 2023

The 20 Minute City 

The 20 Minute City 

 

Introduction: 

 

Do you know what a 20 minute city is? Well let me tell you that a 20 minute city will be accessible and it will make life easier. Everything you need will be within reach in 20 minutes. This would lead to something like if you need to use the bathroom or need to go to the supermarket you can just, take a little walk outside for 20 minutes and find your destination. A 20 minute city is basically where you can access any facilities you need. Everyone and anyone can access it if they live in a 20 minute city. 

 

Information #1 – Health:  

 

A key benefit of living in a 20 minute city helps with your health. If you’re sick you can just take a 20 minute walk to the doctors or any other place to make yourself feel pumped up. If there is less transport then elderly and sick people will be able to breathe in clean, fresh air. It also helps because if you’re sick you can access medical care really easily. Living in a 20 minute city helps advertise more physical activities like swimming. This can also help people get Vitamin D while being in the sun which also releases what we call endorphins. Everyone in a 2o minute city really need 

 

Information #2 – Reducing Vehicle Dependency:

 

Another key benefit of living in a 20 minute city helps reduce the use of vehicle dependency, meaning that you wouldn’t have much use of your car in the city getting to places you need to get to. This helps save both money and time getting in and out of places. Reducing vehicle dependency can also help people not get into traffic when people are crossing the road. When cars are reduced from the city it also means that it would be a good opportunity to advertise physical activities. Such as, Cycling, Scootering, walking and more. Less transportation makes the city better because there will be less emissions/pollution in our city and it will make the air more cleaner. This will be very good for travellers who can just walk around the city for just 20 minutes and they will find whatever they need. Travellers will also enjoy this time just travelling the city for 20 minutes and exploring the city just by walking or cycling. 

 

Information #3 – Greater Accessibility: 

 

Speaking about reducing vehicle dependency, let’s talk about how you can get greater accessibility from 20 minute cities. Everyone is welcomed to visit facilities in 20 minutes, mostly for elderly people who need help with medicine or food. Elderly people are mostly left at home with no one to watch or feed them. This is good for the elderly people so they can have a little walk to make them feel much better & healthy. Other people might also be disabled and cannot c0ok because of their disability. Everyone can also have access anytime within 20 minutes, anyone who lives far away from work can have access applying to another job 20 minutes away from them. Anyone who is a tourist in a 20 minute city is really good, they don’t have to ask people where the bathroom is or where to find food. All they need to do is just search up where it is or if there’s signs, they can just follow the sign wherever it leads them. 

 

Conclusion – Add everything together:

 

A 20 minute city is basically where you can access any facilities you need. Everyone and anyone can access it if they live in a 20 minute city. Anyone who is a tourist in a 20 minute city is really good, they don’t have to ask people where the bathroom is or where to find food.When cars are reduced from the city it also means that it would be a good opportunity to advertise physical activities. Such as, Cycling, Scootering, walking and more.  Everyone is welcomed to visit facilities in 20 minutes, mostly for elderly people who need help with medicine or food. Elderly people are mostly left at home with no one to watch or feed them. 

 

Respond to text – The 20 minute city

Task description: This week during reading I did respond to text – the 20 minute city. We had to answer 4 questions in our own ways. We then had to do a create task with a buddy. I chose Vika to be my buddy. We had to explain what a 2o minute city is and the benefits plus limitations about a 20 minute city. I really loved this task because we had to create a video and we had to use screencastify. 

My highlight was making the video with my friend Vika, because I found out that I said “particular and New york” wrong. I was a bit embarrassed but I really didn’t care. My low light had to write the slides, because it was really boring and it took a long time. Please leave a positive comment on my blog. Thank you!

My quote of the day: Everything doesn’t have to be perfect, It just has to be done right!