15 Minutes Cities by Sony CSL

Sony Computer Science Laboratories in Rome have released a new interactive map which provides 15 Minute City accessibility scores for nearly every city in the world. The '15-minute city' is an urban planning concept aimed at designing cities in a way that ensures residents can access most of their daily needs—such as work, shopping, healthcare, education, and recreation—within a 15-minute walk or bike ride from their homes. It seeks to create more livable, sustainable, and community-oriented environments where essential services are easily accessible to residents.

Select a city on the new 15min-City map and you can view a hexbin map of the city showing how accessible services are from each hexagonal area. The color of each hexagon on the city map corresponds to the number of minutes it takes to access a number of essential services by foot or bike. You can color the hexagons by either walking or cycling time and you can also select to view the accessibility times of individual category of service (outdoor activities, learning, supplies, eating, moving, cultural activities, physical exercise, services, healthcare).

If you live in the United States you can also refer to the Close interactive map which allows users to discover walkable, bikeable, and transit-friendly neighborhoods across the country. Close allows users to select the amenities & destinations which are important to them and then it creates a US travel-time map based on walking, biking and public transit travel times to those destinations. Which means you can quickly find your ideal 15 minute neighborhoods in towns and cities across the whole U.S..