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4.9 • 937 Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2023

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

“15-minute cities” are having a moment, and not exactly in a good way. How did a mundane urban planning concept turn into the latest grist for the culture-war mill? Why does the idea of making it easier to walk to school or the grocery store have some people afraid that they won’t be able to leave their homes for more than 15 minutes? And why do some think this is all a plot by the World Economic Forum to force people to “own nothing and be happy”? We break down this conspiracy theory and ask if we can ever get back to reality.

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0:00.0	What are your plans for getting out this spring?
0:04.0	Maybe you want to explore parts of your city you've never seen before.
0:08.0	Maybe you want to ride out in the countryside.
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0:50.2	A Rad bike can take you wherever you want to go.
0:54.0	Aaron, Sarah, tell me what you know about 15 minute cities.
1:04.8	Okay, so I always knew 15 minute cities as a very kind of nerdy and mundane urban planning
1:10.2	concept, the idea being like, let's try to create neighborhoods where everything is
1:14.4	within walking distance of where we live and work. Right but now I think it's
1:20.4	become shorthand for the American gulag.
1:28.8	Wow, that's a leap.
1:30.1	Yeah.
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