15-Minute City Model: Sustainable Mobility, Climate Action, and Just transition

Keywords: 15-Minute City Model, Sustainable Mobility, Climate Action, Just transition, Climate Justice
Abstract Type: Virtual Paper Abstract

Abstract

The consequences of the inevitable shift to a post-carbon society on the existing urban and mobility inequalities were usually overlooked in the past climate change and sustainability scholarship. ‘Just transition’ is a concept that understands climate action as a continuous process of change, a transition, and ensures that its plans will not be undertaken at the most vulnerable populations’ expense, a just process. The 15-minute city is an emerging model that offers a vision for a spatial organization depending on active travel as the main mode of transportation. This paper aims to find linkages between the emerging model and the climate action, and to conceptually explore the potentials in which the model could be able to provide a sustainable transformation to urban life, while, at the same time, addressing justice concerns. It intends to initiate a discussion about the possibilities of the emerging model to foster the process of just transition.