The 20-minute city: An equity analysis of Liverpool City Region

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The 20-minute city: An equity analysis of Liverpool City Region

Calafiore, Alessia / Dunning, Richard / Nurse, Alex / Singleton, Alex

Highlights • The 20-minute city has the potential to provide numerous benefits for residents. • Some areas need additional support if the 20-minute city is to be socially just. • Socio-economic inequalities in accessibility exist in Liverpool City Region.

Abstract The 20-minute city has become a popular urban planning policy to support low-transport neighbourhoods. Whilst meeting residents’ needs in local neighbourhoods is not a new concept, urban and transportation planners are increasingly being tasked with re-structuring transport and public services to facilitate people ‘living locally’. The existence of a 20-minute city is seen as a signifier of urban success and has taken on political acknowledgement through the pandemic, yet existing spatial inequalities contribute to the daunting headwinds in making active travel support an equitable city. In this paper, we provide a novel approach to identify where 20-minute neighbourhoods might exist within a large city region and assess how their existence aligns with socio-spatial inequalities.