My first paper on residential narrative and the 15-minute city was published this past week in space & FORM journal, based at West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin // Polish Academy of Sciences.
The paper is titled ‘Urban oral history: residential narrative on the 15-minute city and urban transformation in Warsaw and Edinburgh’ and connects to my PhD fieldwork through 2023 in Warsaw and a remote workshop I did in collaboration with Living Streets Edinburgh.
The journal is Open Access. Thank you to the editors for the opportunity to publish. I look forward to submitting more!
-Annika
Link to issue: https://pif.zut.edu.pl/pif65-2026/
ABSTRACT
This study documents research outcomes in the form of residential narratives on the experience of a neighborhood-based 15-minute city concept experience in Warsaw and Edinburgh. The study focuses on the results of a survey that explored place attachment, quality of life, and appeal of the 15-minute city concept as a lived experience. The author asserts that these narratives can provide residential-based insight on challenges and opportunities for contemporary urban transformation and also be valued as a form of contemporary urban oral history, not only on the physical conditions of the built environment, public space, and sustainable mobility options in diverse neighborhoods but also on the perception and experience of these spaces, environments, and mobility possibilities. The overall purpose of this study was to test out the 15-minute city residential survey in local workshops (Warsaw) as part of a broader community-engaged research project and also pilot the survey remotely (Edinburgh) to test out the survey administration remotely.
Keywords: 15-minute city, oral history, place attachment, urbanism, walkability
