Germans have barely scratched the concept of the 15-minute city-concept. In the UK....it's in turbo-mood.
Essentially....this is a urban zone where residents can access essential needs....work, education, healthcare, shopping, recreation....within a 15-minute walk or bike ride from their homes.
Where it came from? It was proposed by urbanist Carlos Moreno in 2016, where it gained traction as a model for sustainable, equitable, and livable cities.
If you asked from the stand-point of designing a city from scratch....yeah, it might work. From the stand-point of your town or village having existed for 300 to 500 years....no, it's a bit too late.
From a stand-point of quality of life? The evidence has yet to prove anything much.
Is there too much misinformation (blasting forward on positive crap) now a problem? I'd say the public is still disbelieving a lot of the hype.
The one selling point? If you could rig up parks, grocery stores, and transportation hubs within a 15-to-20 minute walk....it'd be wonderful.
Do I already live in a 15-minute village? Yes, with 4,000 people....everything is a 15-minute 'power-walk'.....from end-to-end. No, it was never designed this way....it was purely by accident. So, we really don't need some idiots BSing us into change.
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It was basically how everyone lived in the 80's until conservatives brought in austerity to give as much other people's money directly to rich people. That's why people think that the banking crisis in 2008 was caused by too many migrants.
Maybe one out of a hundred think the 2008 banking crisis was a migrant thing. More than 50-percent generally believe banks went crazy on home-loans....letting people borrow an outrageous amount...that they could not handle (long term). The cost levels of homes (probably from 2000 to 2008) was on a fantastic spiral....making people think homes were worth the advertised amount (when they weren't). After 2008/2009....I worked with several folks who'd bought $400k homes, and the prices adjusted (down to the $240k range). I've spent a fair amount of time reading over the 1920s...a lot of 2008 errors....lead back to the 20's.
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