Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Paris Mayor: It's Time for a '15-Minute City'

citylab.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

11–20 of 189 posts

Re: Paris Mayor: It's Time for a '15-Minute City'

#11

Post by PhantomGremlin »

Animats wrote: post #4

More convenience stores will be needed. Ones with longer hours.

Why convenience stores?

When I grew up, many years ago, in the East Village in NYC, you had specialty stores. Bread shop, milk and butter and eggs shop, butcher shop, fish shop, fruit and vegetable stand, pharmacy. All separate establishments.

Unfortunately that concept has gone by the wayside. But there was so much more variety than found in modern convenience stores. This was a lower-middle-class neighborhood, nothing fancy. And forget 20 minutes, everything was a less than 10 minute walk.

Now I live in suburbia and the closest stores are about 2 miles away. So of course everybody drives.

Re: Paris Mayor: It's Time for a '15-Minute City'

#12

Post by hans1729 »

thaumasiotes wrote: post #5
Animats wrote: post #4

More convenience stores will be needed. Ones with longer hours.

Do Parisian convenience stores close at night? Chinese urban convenience stores don't; even here in the American suburbs CVS is open 24 hours, and so is Safeway.

>"even here in America"

Not to derail the conversation, byt why the 'even'? 24h-stores seem like an inherently american concept to me (I'm german, so France is right around the corner)

Re: Paris Mayor: It's Time for a '15-Minute City'

#15

Post by soared »

thaumasiotes wrote: post #5
Animats wrote: post #4

More convenience stores will be needed. Ones with longer hours.

Do Parisian convenience stores close at night? Chinese urban convenience stores don't; even here in the American suburbs CVS is open 24 hours, and so is Safeway.

Paris doesn’t have stores comparable to cvs from what I’ve seen. Monoprix is a grocery store but scaled down.

Re: Paris Mayor: It's Time for a '15-Minute City'

#16

Post by 2019-nCoV »

hans1729 wrote: post #12
thaumasiotes wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do Parisian convenience stores close at night? Chinese urban convenience stores don't; even here in the American suburbs CVS is open 24 hours, and so is Safeway.

>"even here in America" Not to derail the conversation, byt why the 'even'? 24h-stores seem like an inherently american concept to me (I'm german, so France is right around the corner)

The US 24h culture pales in comparison to that of East Asia.

Re: Paris Mayor: It's Time for a '15-Minute City'

#18

Post by tehlike »

toohotatopic wrote: post #13
roel_v wrote: post #3

At the same time, there is a 30m2 (323 sqft) Parisian apartment for sale for e1.2mm (USD 1.3mm). Not sure these things are quite compatible...

At 1% interests rate, that's e12.000 a year, e1000 a month. Not bad.

Is it 1% interest rate over there?

Re: Paris Mayor: It's Time for a '15-Minute City'

#19

Post by athenot »

PhantomGremlin wrote: post #11
Animats wrote: post #4

More convenience stores will be needed. Ones with longer hours.

Why convenience stores? When I grew up, many years ago, in the East Village in NYC, you had specialty stores. Bread shop, milk and butter and eggs shop, butcher shop, fish shop, fruit and vegetable stand, pharmacy. All separate establishments. Unfortunately that concept has gone by the wayside. But there was so much more variety than found in modern convenience stores. This was a lower-middle-class neighborhood, noth…

Like the rest of the country, Paris has open air markets twice a week in the morning. It's not 24/7 but it's way fresher.
Post reply on HN