The Evolutive Meshed Compact City - A new framework for the 15mC in peripheral areas

Abstract

The 15mC concept is shaping new policies to improve quality of life and accomplish the energy and ecological transition of 21st-century cities. Through pedestrian-based proximity, inhabitants and city users should be able to walk to destinations catering for most of their daily needs (Moreno et al. 2021). Motorised traffic will be reduced, public space will find new patronage, retail and services will become viable at the proximity scale. The 15mC is partly based on previous planning models such as the Neighbourhood Unit (Perry 1929) and Transit-Oriented Development (Cervero et al. 2004), building on the same planning principles as the Compact City: density, proximity and mixed land use (EIT Urban Mobility 2022). Compact European urban cores already implemented 15mC solutions with some success, as in Paris and Barcelona.