Creating sustainable and equitable communities in a post-Covid context : development of the Scottish 20-minute neighbourhood concept
Mackenzie, Anna (2022)
Mackenzie, Anna
2022
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2022061718164
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2022061718164
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The aim of the research is to contextualise the 20-minute neighbourhood in Scotland as a place-based approach to a post-pandemic green recovery; to understand how the concept is being received and understood by stakeholders, including residents, planners, and policy makers; and to gain insight into the opportunities and barriers to implementation and success.
A mixed-methods qualitative approach was taken with four phases of study and analysis based on evidence gathered from a diverse range of primary and secondary sources, including literature, interviews, workshops, and comments from a public consultation project.
Emergent themes of Liveability, Community, Resilience, Changing Behaviour, Barriers & Constraints were found from interviews with stakeholders, working or involved in research, decision making, or project delivery within urbanism, policy, and planning in Dundee & the Tay region, and across Scotland.
Workshops with residents used the Place Standard tool to understand how they felt about, used, and moved around their neighbourhoods as well as their experiences of place during the pandemic. Mapping was used to understand how the neighbourhoods were performing as 20-minute neighbourhoods and to identify significant barriers to access and connectivity. Physical and mental barriers included accessibility, safety, topography and a lack of infrastructure. Neighbourhoods with greater access to amenities, greenspace, and community support, were more resilient to the negative impacts of Covid-19 restrictions.
The 20-minute neighbourhood is about living well locally, by meeting the daily needs of residents in their local areas, including the opportunity to live, work, support and enhance their local neighbourhoods. This study shows the importance of it being adaptable and localised, recognising that especially place-based solutions are unique to each community or area. It also shows that critical infastructure is needed before new areas are developed and that incremental interventions are vital for achieving and sustaining meaningful cultural change in attitudes and habits.
The study shows the importance of connectivity, supporting active travel networks and public transport infrastructure to connect people and communities with thriving, liveable, healthy, safe, and accessible neighbourhoods, while reducing car-dependency and emissions.
Local planning policy and priorities need to be aligned with actions to achieve national and global climate targets, while building a stronger, fairer, more economically, socially, and environmentally sustainable world.
20-minute neighbourhoods provide an easily understood and transparent tool, which if adopted in an overarching strategy, can empower communities and coordinate stakeholders’ efforts and actions towards a timely solution to our critical climate problem.
A mixed-methods qualitative approach was taken with four phases of study and analysis based on evidence gathered from a diverse range of primary and secondary sources, including literature, interviews, workshops, and comments from a public consultation project.
Emergent themes of Liveability, Community, Resilience, Changing Behaviour, Barriers & Constraints were found from interviews with stakeholders, working or involved in research, decision making, or project delivery within urbanism, policy, and planning in Dundee & the Tay region, and across Scotland.
Workshops with residents used the Place Standard tool to understand how they felt about, used, and moved around their neighbourhoods as well as their experiences of place during the pandemic. Mapping was used to understand how the neighbourhoods were performing as 20-minute neighbourhoods and to identify significant barriers to access and connectivity. Physical and mental barriers included accessibility, safety, topography and a lack of infrastructure. Neighbourhoods with greater access to amenities, greenspace, and community support, were more resilient to the negative impacts of Covid-19 restrictions.
The 20-minute neighbourhood is about living well locally, by meeting the daily needs of residents in their local areas, including the opportunity to live, work, support and enhance their local neighbourhoods. This study shows the importance of it being adaptable and localised, recognising that especially place-based solutions are unique to each community or area. It also shows that critical infastructure is needed before new areas are developed and that incremental interventions are vital for achieving and sustaining meaningful cultural change in attitudes and habits.
The study shows the importance of connectivity, supporting active travel networks and public transport infrastructure to connect people and communities with thriving, liveable, healthy, safe, and accessible neighbourhoods, while reducing car-dependency and emissions.
Local planning policy and priorities need to be aligned with actions to achieve national and global climate targets, while building a stronger, fairer, more economically, socially, and environmentally sustainable world.
20-minute neighbourhoods provide an easily understood and transparent tool, which if adopted in an overarching strategy, can empower communities and coordinate stakeholders’ efforts and actions towards a timely solution to our critical climate problem.