Doha as a 15-Minute City: An Urban Fereej

The 15-Min City is a proposed new way of re-assessing and upgrading the liveability of our cities. Put forward by Professor Carlos Moreno, it is becoming a prevalent discussion among policymakers and urbanists across many cities. At its core is a belief that cities should be planned for walking and biking and all daily essentials should be located within fifteen minutes of one’s residence. In this chapter, we use the 15-Min concept as a lens to discuss Doha’s potential of adapting itself to the new notion of chrono-urbanism, poised by recent shifts in people’ mobility patterns, their proximity needs, and their own perceptions and experiences in the city, and considering post-pandemic reflections on strengths and weaknesses of cities to remain malleable, less car-dependent and to continuously synchronize with the needs of their residents.

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Published in: Sustainable Qatar : Social, Political and Environmental Perspectives
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
See chapter on publisher's website: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-7398-7_14