Age and the 20-min city: Accounting for variation in mobility

Dunning, Richard James ORCID: 0000-0003-0397-679X, Dolega, Les ORCID: 0000-0002-1340-6507, Nasuto, Andrea ORCID: 0000-0003-2915-7100, Nurse, Alexander ORCID: 0000-0003-0325-4420 and Calafiore, Alessia (2023) Age and the 20-min city: Accounting for variation in mobility. APPLIED GEOGRAPHY, 156. p. 103005.

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeog.2023.103005

Abstract

The political popularity of the 20-min city is a result of its perceived equal treatment of all citizens, yet the ideal geography fails to consider the diversity of mobilities and needs of different age groups. If 20-min cities are to provide equality for people with limited mobility, they need to understand their location and proximity to the services which meet their needs. Considering older people as a subset of the population with diverse mobilities, this research provides a novel exploration of the issue of age and urban mobility through grounded analysis of the 20-min city against a geodemographic classification of older people in Liverpool City Region, England. We construct a new model of accessibility to services that takes into consideration varied mobilities for older residents. We find that reduced walking speed results in a significant diminution of service accessibility, but that this diminution is highly varied for different older person groups. This highlights the need for 20-min city planning to account for the needs of diverse older geodemographic groups and a tighter conceptualization of the 20-min city concerning equity to avoid the pitfalls of some similar urban planning concepts.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	20-Min, Active travel, Urban planning, Equity, Ageing
Divisions:	Faculty of Science and Engineering > School of Environmental Sciences
Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	09 Jun 2023 15:25
Last Modified:	12 Jul 2023 09:59
DOI:	10.1016/j.apgeog.2023.103005
Open Access URL:	https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/...
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URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3170899