Russia designates Dobrograd and Sberbank City 15-minute cities
Dobrograd
The city of the present Dobrograd, as its official website presents:
Dobrograd is a new city in the Vladimir region, where modern technologies, picturesque nature and a multifunctional environment capable of adapting to human needs are combined.
Our team faces an ambitious task - to create the value of life here for all three generations: education and development for children, interesting work and lifestyle for adults, and for the older - socialization and medicine.
In megacities, we often hurry, hurry somewhere without looking back just because we can't wait - all the places important for us are scattered around the city, and we will have to spend a lot of time and effort to get to them. In Dobrograd, it is easy to maintain a balance between work, personal life, education and health. The city is built on the concept of slow-city, where everything necessary for a person is within a 15-minute walk.
Is it or not yet?
Detailed presentation from the site:
Judging by the information on the website, the construction has been underway for a year. The author of the project is Vladimir Sedov, according to Wikipedia:
In December 2020, within the framework of the Vladimir Investment Congress, it was announced that it was received the status of a special economic zone of industrial and production type "Dobrograd-1", which is located 5 km from the city of the same name and covers an area of 211 hectares. The special economic zone "Dobrograd - 1" is an industrial site on the territory of which a special regime of entrepreneurial activity is carried out, providing for a significant amount of preferences. The location of production in such a territory allows to increase the competitiveness of products in the Russian market by reducing taxes on property, transport, land, profit and customs duties.
In principle, it is clear that this Dobrograd could be based on the model of a 15-minute city. At least that's what everything on the site says.
Get in 15 minutes from Sberbank
Dobrograd is not the only one. On the Sberbank website you can find a detailed presentation of another "smart city", and the title of the article hints at the same model from the WEF:
To make sure of this, finally read the full description on the site:
The idea is simple - to organize the urban space so that people can get to any object they need in 15 minutes. Despite the "confusion" of big cities, even in them there are not so many really necessary objects, the supporters of the concept emphasize.
Such a project was first proposed by urban designer Clarence Perry in the 1920s when working with the general plan of New York. He considered the following conditions to be mandatory:
In New York, Perry's proposed concept could not be fully implemented - the Great Depression prevented. But later the idea was used in Vancouver, where a "5-minute city" was organized: it was divided into 120 microdistricts, each of which has a school and a shopping center with a variety of infrastructure. By the way, over the past 10 years, Vancouver has been consistently among the top five cities in terms of quality of life in the Mercer rating.
They were also inspired by the idea in Paris, and recently: against the background of a pandemic that limited the movement of citizens accustomed to active life. As Carlos Moreno, a professor and expert on complex systems and innovations of the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne, explains, urban neighborhoods should be organized so that in a 15-minute walk or cycling citizens can access work, housing, food, health care, education, culture and leisure.
The concept of a "15-minute city," notes Carlos Moreno, implies effective and multifunctional use of every square meter of urban space. The space is focused on people, not on transport traffic. In turn, citizens can live and work in the same area without wasting time on the road.
For Russia, the concept of 15-minute cities is not new - they include science cities: Dubna, Zelenograd, Troitsk, which were built around city-forming enterprises in Soviet times. "From modern Russian examples, Skolkovo is close to the idea and the still developing Innopolis near Kazan. The new Rublyovo-Arkhangelskoye project is also conceived as a 15-minute city," said Yuliy Borisov, head of the UNK group of companies.
Moscow is a city in three dimensions
In August 2021, the project of the Moscow city plan 15-min triangle entered the top 30 of the International Urban Design Competition "15-minute City", organized by the architectural online platform The Charette.
On average, residents of Moscow and St. Petersburg spend up to 60 minutes on the road to work in one direction.
It is a triangular city-module in the form of a polycentric urban planning system: the main transport networks are located underground (upstairs - only bicycle and pedestrian routes), and buildings are raised on supports. Much attention is paid to energy efficiency: the use of renewable energy sources (sun, water, wind) is expected. Otherwise, the Moscow project repeats its foreign colleagues: green areas, accessibility of infrastructure and the importance of good-neighborliness are mandatory.
The size of the "15-minute district" is 3 by 3 kilometers. "Not very much by Russian standards. One large developer could develop such a territory. But still, usually construction companies specialize in one thing (housing, offices, etc.), and here you will have to build everything at once, - Yuli Borisov draws attention. - In Russia, such projects are real only with state funding, and most likely only a bank with state participation will be able to work. The option of cooperation under the management of a large operator or development within the framework of a special state program is also possible, the expert adds.
Experts believe that the first floors of new buildings are suitable for the creation of social infrastructure in "15-minute" quarters. There can be social institutions, commercial premises and community spaces.
By the way, the mayor's office of the capital has already announced its decision to rent such premises for shops, beauty salons, fitness studios, children's development centers and other services. Even at the design stage of a complex or quarter, it is necessary to think about the availability of suitable spaces. At the same time, developers should still build free-standing objects.
One of the main tasks in the design of the "15-minute city" is the development of the green zone.
In general, it sounds good (as well as everything else on global projects of "sustainable development"): promises to make the world more convenient, cleaner, more pleasant, more accessible, and people happier. However, we remember that according to the same Shvab, to whom the first channel devoted a whole hour of airtime, "those who have nothing will be happy."
Judging by the website of this Sberbank project, the construction is in full swing (despite the "fight against everything global"). And sales started in the summer of 2023:
Sberbank is building an eco-city of the future in Rublevo-Arkhangelsk on an area of 461 hectares. Previously, only employees of the Sber Group could buy an apartment here. Open sales in SberCity started on June 8.
Sberbank plans to transfer a number of its companies to Rublevo-Arkhangelskoye, said the head of Sberbank German Gref. He noted that employees will have the opportunity to live in the most modern district of the capital. The first office buildings will be built for Sber and partners.
SberCity is being built in the west of Moscow, 3 km from the Moscow Ring Road, near Ilyinsky and Novorizhsky and Rublevsky highways. In 2026, the Rublevo-Arkhangelskoye metro station will be opened here. You can get from Sberbank City to Moscow City in 20 minutes.
Sberbank City is created according to international standards of green design, said Andrey Likhachev, General Director of Rublevo-Arkhangelskoye JSC. This is not just the development of the territory, but the creation of a full-fledged part of the urban environment. Within walking distance there will be eight schools with different educational profiles, 16 kindergartens, a polyclinic. A single parking space will be provided here. In total, it is planned to create more than 36 thousand parking spaces.
And a video presentation to consolidate these "future conveniences":
Source: https://redko-da-metko.ru/2024/01/09/15-minutbye-goroda-v-rossii/