Building 15-Minute Communities: A Leadership Guide shares promising insights and strategies for leveraging infrastructure investments and real estate development to create walkable, transit-oriented, sustainable, and complete communities.

Fifteen-minute communities hold the promise of accelerating decarbonization, increasing affordability, reducing climate and health risks, and fostering social equity and inclusion. This walking-centered approach to city building lays the foundation for developing compact, mixed-use communities that can increase real estate value, create co-benefits with joint use and co-location, and generate new resources to invest in the community.

The report shares promising leadership strategies to

• Initiate joint infrastructure projects across 5 systems— environmental, community, mobility, energy and vision;
• Apply walkable, mixed-use decisions across 6 geographies— metro regions, downtowns, edge cities, suburban corridors, malls, exurbs;
• Lead effective partnerships to coordinate actions among government, real estate and nonprofit sectors.

Continue reading to learn the key takeaways, the “Five Forces for Change,” and leadership strategies by clicking the link below…