Francesc Baró

Francesc Baró

Francesc Baró
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Professor in the Department of Geography at the Free University of Brussels (VUB) and researcher at the Cosmopolis Center for Urban Research.

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New online map to find 15-minute cities

A new web-based tool analyzes major cities like Tokyo, Paris, Atlanta or Barcelona to see how close they are to the 15-minute city concept, where residents take less than those minutes to access essential services by foot, bike, or public transport. According to the study, published in Nature Cities, few cities fit this concept. The tool, which is freely accessible and uses data from 10,000 cities sourced from the open-source packages GeoPandas and OpenStreetMap, could be useful for developing action plans and estimating how viable it is to transform certain cities to follow this model.

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