“The 15-minute city is an attempt to reconcile the city
with the humans that live in it.”

“Living in a city means accepting a certain level of dysfunction: long commutes, noisy streets, underutilized spaces. Carlos Moreno wants to change that. He makes the case for the "15-minute city," where inhabitants have access to all the services they need to live, learn and thrive within their immediate vicinity -- and shares ideas for making urban areas adapt to humans, not the other way around.”
(Video and text provided by TED)

“For the past 50 years, the landscape of innovation has been dominated by places like Silicon Valley—suburban corridors of spatially isolated corporate campuses, accessible only by car, with little emphasis on the quality of life or on integrating work, housing and recreation.

A new complementary urban model is now emerging, giving rise to what we and others are calling “innovation districts.” These districts, by our definition, are geographic areas where leading-edge anchor institutions and companies cluster and connect with start-ups, business incubators and accelerators. They are also physically compact, transit-accessible, and technically-wired and offer mixed-use housing, office, and retail.”

The Metropolitan Revolution

Making Nature’s City
by the San Francisco Estuary Institute

Using Nature’s Boundaries
by the San Francisco Estuary Institute

“Urban ecological science can provide a powerful tool to guide cities towards more biodiversity-friendly design. However, current research remains scattered across thousands of journal articles and is largely inaccessible to practitioners. Our report Making Nature’s City addresses these issues, synthesizing global research to develop a science-based approach for supporting nature in cities. “

Addressing challenging topics such as climate change, sea level rise, erosion, and wetland and habitat preservation are just a few of the topics that were presented by SFEI to the Sunnyvale Planning Commission as part of a special study session. The presentation and an audio recording are available can be found below.

Google, a local tenant of Moffett Park, is proposing a brand new public bicycle and pedestrian network that includes designated bike lanes, sidewalk and infrastructure improvements, and roadway changes that improve safety and create new opportunities for people to circulate within the plan area. The Green Link and associating Manila Avenue Bikeway aim to create better access into Moffett Park by prioritizing a new bicycle path with attractively designed pedestrian walkways.

You can watch the introductory presentation given to the City’s Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Commission during their June 18, 2020 meeting by clicking on the ‘Meetings’ image below. You will be sent to an external site where the Sunnvale City Clerk hosts the recording.

Slide Presentation introducing the Green Link