Marchetti's Constant and The Chrono-gland
Something I found rather fascinating...
"How we want to use our time will determine how we want to build a metropolis.
Marchetti's Constant: The average travel time budget, around the world, in every city, is
about one hour, per person, per day. If you take half an hour for the journey to work
and home again then that's it. If you take less, you'll probably go walking with the dog or
something but you'll take about an hour on average.
We need to have a restorative, reflective time.
[Thus] the city is always one-hour wide. The walking cities of the past - historic, medieval
cities - were five to eight kilometres wide. You could walk across them in an hour.
Victorian cities, the industrial revolution cities, spread out because the pipes and the rails
meant that we could now travel 20 to 30 kilometres. And the city remained one hour
wide.
[Motorways] spread the city out further. In an hour you could go 50 kilometres.
The Marchetti principle means that if you have a good public transport system there will
be a market for dense, walkable development."
Peter Newman, Sydney Morning Herald, 26 April 2004
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I find that my perception of time is rather rapidly degrading.
I suspect that my chrono-gland is not secreting enough seconds, as I find myself without enough time.
Time just flies past me, and I am dead in the water.
I once made the claim that I could mess with Time.
It would appear that Time is now messing with me.
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In other news, Hot Fuzz exceeded my expectations.
It is much better than Shaun of the Dead and on par with Spaced.
"How we want to use our time will determine how we want to build a metropolis.
Marchetti's Constant: The average travel time budget, around the world, in every city, is
about one hour, per person, per day. If you take half an hour for the journey to work
and home again then that's it. If you take less, you'll probably go walking with the dog or
something but you'll take about an hour on average.
We need to have a restorative, reflective time.
[Thus] the city is always one-hour wide. The walking cities of the past - historic, medieval
cities - were five to eight kilometres wide. You could walk across them in an hour.
Victorian cities, the industrial revolution cities, spread out because the pipes and the rails
meant that we could now travel 20 to 30 kilometres. And the city remained one hour
wide.
[Motorways] spread the city out further. In an hour you could go 50 kilometres.
The Marchetti principle means that if you have a good public transport system there will
be a market for dense, walkable development."
Peter Newman, Sydney Morning Herald, 26 April 2004
*
I find that my perception of time is rather rapidly degrading.
I suspect that my chrono-gland is not secreting enough seconds, as I find myself without enough time.
Time just flies past me, and I am dead in the water.
I once made the claim that I could mess with Time.
It would appear that Time is now messing with me.
*
In other news, Hot Fuzz exceeded my expectations.
It is much better than Shaun of the Dead and on par with Spaced.