Urbanism’s Newest Controversy - Why the “15-minute city” has sparked protests

City Journal ^ | Spring, 2023 | Steven Malanga

[MtnClimber]

As someone mentioned in another thread...The WHO Digital Passport will keep you in your 15-minute city.

[Kaiser8408a]

the 15 minute city idiocy is a green, anti-suburb movement to get us herded into cities for easy control. While John F’ing Kerry will live in multiple mansions.

[butlerweave]

World Enslavement Forum is code for the New Nazi Party

[eartick]

Keep on trying until push comes to shove.

I will keep my 45 minute drive to a city

[ClearCase_guy]

Cities are no longer needed (except for warehousing and control of the peasants). People should get out.

[blueunicorn6]

Get in your hovel and eat your porridge.

[rktman]

They(?) are going to implement this idea somewhere in the UK soon (Oxford?) IIRC. You will be ‘allowed’ out of your 15 minute area several times per year. WTAF? No suburban or urban living. Think multiple high rise apartment buildings.

[butlerweave]

That picture at the top , where are the young people ?

[pierrem15]

There's nothing new about this design. Before workers could afford cars or transportation to work in the 19th and early 20th centuries, neighborhoods would be built around the factories and warehouses where people worked. Most workers rented small, overcrowded apartments because that was all they could afford. Just like the illegals converting apartments into boarding houses today.

The whole plan now is to cover the turd sandwich of impoverishing workers down to 19th century levels with a green lettuce wrap. You will own nothing, and be ordered to celebrate greenness.

[The Louiswu]

It's easier for your government to build "15 minute cities" than whole new camps to house / imprison the serfs. One day your shiny new city will have a razor wire perimeter, guards with machine guns and dogs and you'll be required to unlock and show your phone in order to travel outside the wire.

[butlerweave]

Will they increase Police forces by 1000 % to keep this going ?

[rktman]

DUH! Headlines first article later. As usual. 😂👍 Its about Oxford so at least I remembered that. DOH!

[The Louiswu]

"Police"

They won't be called Police anymore, they will be something like Peoples Armies Volunteers or some such word salad. They won't work for you any longer.

[rktman]

Uh, rural and sub urban. Need more coffee. Oh, and it is Monday. 😁

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Because people do not like the idea of being locked up?

[rktman]

Seems like a lot if millennials (moronials?) don’t have a problem with this. But, they will eventually.

[wny]

it’s not “...plans to adopt it...”

it’s plans to impose it....

[Myrddin]

The article immediately focuses on disparity of wealth and resources between "wealthy" 15-minute cities and "poor" 15-minute cities. It doesn't take a genius to figure out that the socialist wealth redistribution schemes will be running in high gear to make it "fair" by imposing huge taxes on the "wealthy" 15-minute cities to subsidize the "poor" ones. The "equity" scheme will be in full force. The end result is everyone ends up poor.

The right thing to do is to eviscerate the 15-minute cancer where ever it manifests.

[Alberta's Child]

This is almost a necessary function of rising living standards. For all the flaws of urban living, there are beneficial economies of scale that come with some degree of population density. Medical services, fire protection, and even such things as clean water and sanitary sewer systems are rarely feasible in rural or semi-rural areas.