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2026.04.20.Mon | 15 Minute Cities
As part of planning for the next chapter of life, I used Claude to create a script that pulls public data sources to assess possible 15-minute neighborhoods on the East Coast. I was inspired to use the densities of Little Libraries along with CityNerd’s favorite walk, bike, and transit scores, but both of those data sources are proprietary! Fortunately, I found other sources (click “About data”), for which I am grateful.
I starred a few of the cities I’m familiar with as a reference. I live in Cambridge (too expensive), and visited Pittsburgh (good value, though I wish there were more sunny days), and Asheville (perhaps too small). No city improves on Pittsburgh across all variables (which you can expand, filter, and sort), but I will have to look at Columbus, Ohio more carefully.