[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.

[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 ?

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

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

[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.

[antidemoncrat]

“But it’s the newest flavor in urban planning: a city composed of small districts that include all the key services for residents within a short walk.”

You don’t need no steekin cars. The government will supply all your needs. You just need to report to the nearest government owned government run factory seven days a week for your work assignments.

[FatherofFive]

I’ve always liked the concept. When I worked in NYC, I live in Hoboken. About 20 minutes to my office in the WTC. In Tulsa, I lived just off Cherry Street. The coffee house on the corner was my ‘office’. 8 really good restaurants, four of them local owned. Health club less than a mile away. But I chose this location. The Rats really don’t believe in choice.

[Reno89519]

Community-sized prisons.

[gitmo]

The 15 minute city sounds horrid.

[Organic Panic]

AND it takes 15 minutes from one side of a prison to the other.

[x]

Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson observed that, while walkable neighborhoods were “lovely,” he rejected the idea that “tyrannical bureaucrats” should decide where one should drive.

What would Jane Jacobs have thought of this? She might like the idea of liveable communities within cities where people could access things by walking, but dislike the idea of central planners imposing it on people. People don't want to be "assigned" one grocery store, one pharmacy, one doctor's office. Monopolies stifle healthy competition.

[Robert357]

A question for all the urban planners. Do economies of scale exist? Is specialization of the production of some things an exception or do they really believe in the 15 minute town having everything. Does a small market destroy competition?

For example, should electric power plants only be sized for a small population within 15 minutes of the neighborhoods they serve? Not in my back yard syndrome would need to be stamped out.

How about farms, should the only food eaten in a neighborhood have to be grown within 15 minutes of that area?

How about lumber to build and remodel homes? Must it be grown and milled near the town?