Hi, it's Frieda Pinto here, guest hosting today.

If you want to learn how to take real lasting climate action like I do,

I want to invite you to join Countdown, Ted's new global initiative to accelerate solutions to the climate crisis.

Now here's a talk from the Countdown launch event given by urban planner Carlos Moreno.

If you are an urban city dweller like me, I grew up in Mumbai, moved to London and then to

Los Angeles about 11 years ago, and if you love your city but are concerned about the

growing issues of sound and air pollution and the mounting stress of city life, then this talk

is just for you.

The 15-minute city concept is a genius idea, and it deserves a lot more attention.

For too long, those of us who live in cities, big and small, have accepted the unacceptable.

We accept that in cities. Our sense of time is warped because we have to waste so much of it,

just adapting to the absolute organization and long distances of most of today's cities.

Why is it?

We have to adapt and to degrade our potential quality of life?

Why is it? Not the city that responds to our needs? Why have we left cities to develop on the wrong path for so long, I would like to offer a concept of cities that

goes in the opposite direction to modern urbanism, an attempt at converging life into a human-sized

space rather than fracturing it into inhuman bigness and then forcing us to adapt.

I call it the 15-minute city. And in a nutshell, the idea is that cities should be designed or redesigned

for that within the distance of a 15-minute walk or bike ride,

people should be able to leave the essence of what constitutes the urban experience.

To access, work, housing, of what constitutes the urban experience.

To access, work, housing, food, health, education, culture, and leisure.

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