You Only Have 25 Places in Your Life!

[@hernangb7717]

When I studied in university business administration I got a subject that was analyzing this matter, it is called “The load-distance method” is a mathematical model used to evaluate locations in terms of proximity factors. Select a location that minimizes the total weighted loads entering and leaving the facility. 7 variables to choose the location of the company 1-Accessibility. Settling in an accessible point helps attract customers more easily, but also improves logistics with suppliers and employees.2-Visibility.3-Supplies.4-Security. 5-Price. 6-Close to your consumers.7-Competence. In your case as a human being the main factor(weighted) will be to be close to your family so being at 200 meters from your loved ones is a right decision, also food and kiosk as per survival needs.Hope it helps. Greetings from Montreal!!!

[@QuentinWatt]

Pretty sure the airport and the airport lounge would count as the same place, which would be 25 maximum even with your doctors and pharmacies included.

[@Rokkiteer]

This is useful information. If I want to change something in my life, I can look at the places I frequent and see if I'm tapped for adding new locations or if I should drop one or two of them.

[@Torsan1977]

Just the act of mapping these places could help analyze the choices you make. Perhaps you've moved within a city, but you still go to the same grocery store, that's now far away, for food (been there). You can use Google maps time line feature, if you have it turned on and don't mind having big brother knowing where you are, to help you figure out what you places are, and then analyze the data for more convenient alternatives. It could be like, "it looks lite you're going a bit out of you way for this category, here are some alternatives that fit your movement pattern bettter". Idk, just brainstorming... :)

[@davesvoid7279]

tor_selden, to follow up on your thought, Google maps’ time line feature sends you a “where you’ve been” every month. Surely, if it isn’t considered like a privacy invasion, a cooperation between Google map and Municipalities could help organize cities more efficiently. I just don’t see concretely how to link the “25 places max” study with a “life-sized city” initiative YET. Because as Mikael says, it does seem to have potential: Know where people are generally gonna go, adapt to the people’s need.

[@CasualLinked]

@@davesvoid7279 I just checked it, Google Maps Timeline has a list of all the places your visited by category (cafes, shopping, hotels etc), and you can sort it by most visited. I just used this feature to easily map my '25 places'. Very helpful feature.

[@davidmendelsohn1583]

Reminds me of Anne Hidalgo's idea of the 15-minute city. If you have only 25 or so regular places, how much better it would be if all or most of them are within 15 minutes of where you live.

[@nerdfooda]

Really interesting! I'm going to check out the article and try a map for earlier this year. COVID has me down to 3. My bedroom, my lounge and my kitchen!

[@stripping_architecture]

As architects, we often visit different houses and potential projects, maybe 5 or 6 month. Well those are definitely not one constant place of our life but since it happens frequent for all those different places we'll count one as "empirical" :). Cool thinking btw, cheers!

[@TrudiL13]

Fascinating.

[@Ozblu3y]

I think it definitely speaks to the point that places need to be a "place" not an endless stretch of road, or a -too massive- public area. There needs to be enclosure and understanding of the place.

[@elizabethdavis1696]

You broke it down by season maybe by days of the week or by weekends too would be interesting

[@nicomorales1996]

It gets me super anxious realizing that in this covid contex i barely frequent like 4 places and half of those are supermarkets. I wish my ciy have places for recreation, but you know, that's not really a priority here in the "developing world" for city planners and even parks are still closed due to covid. Nice video and really interesting paper.

[@johnfife3062]

Jives with your earlier observation that the size of traditional cities are about 7 km or 30 min walking, end to end. Not hard to fit one's 25 places in that space. Were I designing a city, I wouldn't -- I'd make a transport-linked series of spaced-out medieval-size cities separated by ag, green, and recreational belts. Wondering, if I mapped my 25 places as you have, and then changed them all, would I feel as if I were living in a different city?

[@johncrwarner]

We also seem to "tread" the same pathways to our "haunts" In my youth I went to a lot of concerts small concerts in pubs and (don't shoot me) I drove to them I had set routes to get to the venues Once I made a mistake and discovered that two venues were within a kilometre or two of each other yet the routes diverged about ten km in the city. And cities like London I have what I call an ant like knowledge of the roads and places. I come out of the underground station and go places but then retreat and go to a different station. Interesting question to ask as with covid and also I am now car-less.

[@Marienkaeferisback]

How cool is that! I‘d love to know, what categorys of places (supermarket, Train Station, Place for Sport, workplace...) Most People have.

[@christill]

Since March I’ve barely gone anywhere, and really only outdoor locations I’ve ridden to. Seems like it’s going to continue this way for the foreseeable future as well.

[@theharbingerofconflation]

I already lived in 14 flats, this video will be more than interesting.

[@RAAZR-]

What if we include digital places and have they replaced real life spots over the years, and will the 25 shrink even more with the digital spaces being more and more dominant?

[@reinerjung1613]

In case someone does not have the extra money for the paper. Here is a preprint version arxiv.org/pdf/1609.03526.pdf

[@Hyperventilacion]

Him: There are some stuff that I don't do on winter. Me: Bathing on the wine bar of course. Him: I love winter bathing: Me: surprised pikachu

[@skyearthocean5815]

I'm someone who travels a lot on a weekly basis so I'm all over the place. And for a couple years I was basically living in two different places going back and forth. So did I have 50 places? One for each residence?

[@WanderABit]

My places were greatly reduced about decade ago or so, when the car traffic increased so much (with addition of traffic lights -- wait, wait, let your life slip away) that I stopped walking except of just food purchases (~2 minute; the rest I buy online, including food, what an irony) and some sport. I wonder if people living in heavily polluted car traffic places had also their places reduced.

[@JackFate76]

Interesting video, as always. But, what’s the deal with Hipsters and Pétanque? It’s the same here in Zurich. It used to be, you could just meet and drink beer. Now you have to always get up and throw a metal ball. I don’t like it.

[@16nine]

Uh, I've been playing pétanque since I was a kid. It's a social activity. And physical activity in public space can't be a bad thing.

[@Ozblu3y]

Secondly though, it is very scholarly to think of these places as being distinct from each other and catergorisable... so I wonder if its more of a web of places that matters than the individual spaces themselves.

[@dragonskunkstudio7582]

Does this happen in other cities? You have to go to over half a dozen different stores just to find the best versions of the things you eat. This place has the best rye bread, this place has the best cuts of meat, this place has the best BBQ peanuts, this place has the best corn chips. Or is this just my city?

[@mousky1967]

It's just you. I have two supermarkets I visit weekly. That's more than enough to satisfy the food demands of my family. Most people don't have the time to travel to the "best store for".

[@dragonskunkstudio7582]

@@mousky1967 I didn't ask if it was me or the stores.

[@theultimatereductionist7592]

I go to 25 different medical doctors.

[@WallStreetIceCream]

What are your favorite cities ? Lived in California my whole life need a change

[@michaeldileo1954]

Favorite for what? Small town with great scenery and beer? Asheville. Great people and food, New Orleans. Others: barcelona, seville, amsterdam. Not a huge city but a lot going on: Charlotte

[@psmithillustration834]

Mikael you need to get onto the Joe Rogan podcast and get your message out to the masses!

[@someguyik]

Interesting thought experiment. Due to COVID, I'm 100% sure I have less than 10 places.

[@evidentside]

Very cool. Very interesting! Funny that we never stop to realise the obvious freakanomics in our life like this. Pretty mad.

[@0xyg3n]

25 places seems a whole lot.

[@ElectricityTaster]

Scihub, Mikael. Trust me.

[@mdhazeldine]

So, if we made neighborhoods with everyone's 25 favourite places in each, then we could drastically reduce traffic and transportation needs and create covid secure bubbles at the same time! #winning 😆

[@ElectricityTaster]

yay tit clubs in every neighbourhood!

[@mousky1967]

I like the idea of going beyond your own neighbourhood.

[@salvuagius]

Somehow, having a coffee from a place close to home doesn't taste as good as having one from a place half way across the island.

[@ElectricityTaster]

@@salvuagius Never had this happen to me. Probably if you cycle there you feel thirstier and in need for some minerals or sugars from the coffee.

[@salvuagius]

@@ElectricityTaster Oh well, you're obviously not used to the southern European/Mediterranean custom of having to go to a restaurant or bar as far away as possible from where one lives, otherwise it's not considered to be an "outing". It's true, in my case, that when I cycle far to a bar or restaurant the food and drinks may seem tastier because of the effort involved in cycling there, but most people do this by car, and somehow it seems to apply to them as well.

[@michalziobro7890]

Amsterdam is better more trees 🌲 🌳

[@EduardoMedinaceli]

this is the link to freely download the scientific paper arxiv.org/abs/1609.03526 cheers

[@TheJoergenDK]

:-D

[@markjuarez6538]

Go on Joe Rogan’s podcast