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Apparently there’s a conspiracy theory that 15-minute cities are urban prisons where residents must wear QR codes that track their restricted movements. As opposed to the reality: mixed-use neighbourhoods so handy that signposts can use walking minutes as the unit of distance to the library, theatres, cafés, community services, museums, parks and shops.
Another sign that a 15-minute city is a lively mixed-use place: a hardware store opened on a main city square in the shadow of the cathedral.
It's the kind of flagship space where you’d usually find a designer bag store. It rents drills, sack trolleys and tools by the hour. That can only make commercial sense when a city centre is not just for businesses and the rich, but for ordinary people living just around the corner in ordinary homes.
A visitor from abroad was surprised to discover that you can borrow an electric cargo bike at the hardware store if you need to carry bulky stuff home.
The first two hours are free. After that, you pay 99 kr. (about €13) per hour. Another nice sign, I think, of the advantages of walkable, bikable cities.
@CiaraNi For nogle år siden rykkede Silvan også ind på Kultorvet i KBH, hvor der før havde været en H&M. Jeg tror, du har ret i, at det tyder på beboere. Med streg under.
@Camlarsch Interessant! Hardware versus H&M - meget sigende! Vi har nemlig talt om, at vi håber at det holder her i Aarhus - det er belejligt nu at kunne hente en skrue, at leje værktøj man kun bruger 1 gang om året, osv., lige ved at gå el. cykle tæt på her i midtbyen. At Silvan allerede gjorde det i Kbh tyder på, at konceptet holder og at de faktisk er kommet for at blive. Tak fordi du delte.
@CiaraNi der hvor Starbucks er nu, var der i årevis en tilsvarende butik (ikke en kæde). Man kunne bla købe skruer og møtrikker enkeltvist (hvem har brug for en hel pakke). Fantastisk butik og bedre end Silvan. Men Silvan er bedre end ingenting.
@Koefoed Det kan jeg faktisk huske, først nu hvor du siger det! Det må være 20+ år tilbage. Byens udvikling er kørt lidt i en (positiv) cirkel - nu er vi tilbage til et sted, hvor det kan betale sig at drive forretninger til lokale beboere. Der er også mange flere supermarkeder i 8000 end der var for bare 10 år siden.
@CiaraNi jeg tror at den blev købt ud for 8-10 år siden. Og dejligt hvis vi er et sted hvor ikke alt foregår online (selvom flere og flere butikker står tomme).
@Koefoed Det er en ægte god og vigtig pointe - at vi får bedre muligheder til at købe så meget som muligt lokalt og fysisk, i stedet for online, som ofte betyder udenbysfra.
@CiaraNi @Koefoed der er en kæmpe udfordring mht bymidter - de er bygget til en verden, der ikke eksisterer mere (nu hvor meget handel foregår online). Især hvis man kommer udenfor de større byer er det slemt, næsten spøgelsesby-agtigt til tider. Jeg har i mange år været fortaler for at man gentænkte bymidter, så man i stedet for tomme butikslejemål har foreningsliv, borgerhuse, repair cafes og lignende. Men det kræver naturligvis velvilje fra udlejerne.
@infonauten Enig! Aarhus Kommune udvikler midtbyen i den rette retning, oplever jeg- der er kommet flere Folkesteder/borgerhuse; flere steder man kan opholde sig i det offentlige rum uden at skulle købe noget/kaffe; repair caféer; flere træer/mere skygge; osv. (Modsat, anekdotisk: Var i Grenå for nylig for første gang i lang tid - var deprimerende at se så mange tomme lejemål og faldefærdige facader lige i midten.
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@CiaraNi I've always fancied visiting after seeing it on a map when visiting Copenhagen for work.
The Danes didn't get the reference when I asked if it was in the middle of the street.
@Workshopshed If you say it in a sing-songy Scottish accent, it sort of approximates the pronunciation in Danish. København is a pleasant direct train trip from Aarhus, less than four hours. Quite doable, should you ever get the chance!
@CiaraNi I sometimes wonder how a country would look like if we combined all good elements into one?
Nice gesture, I like it
@justdude That's a nice thought. Gather the best civic-minded, people-orientated elements from every country and put them all together. It's often the little things that make a big difference. The things that surprise visitors, to the surprise of locals who find them natural.
@CiaraNi What do people who can't ride bikes typically do there?
@biplanepilot @CiaraNi Note that these are electric tricycles. You do not need to balance them, and they do not require much physical strength.
That still excludes some people, but it covers a very large group.
@CiaraNi @Zamfr That’s really cool, from the picture I couldn't see that they were tricycles. That would certainly make them more accessible to me with my balance issues, although you're not wrong that some people would still be excluded. Would a wheelchair user typically rent a delivery truck for this sort of scenario? Is that an option there?
@biplanepilot @CiaraNi
I suppose, or order from a webshop, or drive a car if they can? Same as in other places I guess.
To be clear, I don't live in Arhus, and shops where I live do not rent out cargo bikes. People often have their own cargobike. People with walking difficulties or wheelchairs use the same infrastructure as cyclists, but it's not the same.
For example, wheel chair users often have an electric third wheel they can add to the chair, but it still won't have much cargo space
@biplanepilot @CiaraNi
My understanding is that electric, three-wheeled cargo bikes (like on the photo) are helpful to some people with balancing problems. The alternatives are more conspicuous, medical-looking machines.
@biplanepilot Are you trolling? I may be wrong, but I read this as if you are trying to imply that the voluntary provision of voluntary-to-borrow free bikes is exclusionary. As if having bikes prevents people from walking, taking the bus, pulling a trolley, taking a taxi, using a car.
@CiaraNi Are *you* trolling? I asked a question about how people who can't ride bicycles typically get their large, bulky purchases home. You almost managed to answer my question without being a jerk. Almost.
@biplanepilot @CiaraNi the standard way. They put it in the trailer and drive it home. Or pay someone to do it for them.
@CiaraNi That’s incredible!
@grammasaurus It's a great service!
@CiaraNi Silvan does this too - I miss Denmark.
@rhempel Yes, that is Silvan in the picture.
@CiaraNi I forgot that they rebranded just before we left. The one in Vejle was just down the hill from our place.
@rhempel Vejle! En fantastisk by.
@CiaraNi silvan is the pricey hardware store, harald skrald is the DIY shop of the people
@CiaraNi I so want this concept to prosper. I look at neighbourhoods in my, and other, towns where there would be runs of stores in among streets of housing which would when I was young have had groceries, butchers, greengrocers - maybe a fishmonger or hardware store, a bakery. Now these same areas have a hairdresser, a nail bar, a few takeaways. So for the normal shopping you have to travel - probably by car. Not saying people don't need nail bars etc but these should not be the only stores.
@capnthommo Agreed, wholeheartedly. We are very lucky that our city and its politicians and council staff have chosen people-centred urban design in recent decades, sometimes when it wasn't popular because e.g. replacing a road with a river in the middle of town was too radical at the drawing-board stage. I hope this kind of urban development becomes the norm and continues, both here and in other countries.