20-minute neighborhoods / 15-minute cities

[Roosh]

A plan I'm seeing often is the "20-minute neighborhood," sometimes referred to as a 15-minute city. It appears to be a social engineering project being sold as a way to "live locally" and "vibrantly", but the agenda is to constrain your mobility by limiting automobile use. COVID lockdowns were the test run to confirm that, yes, they want to limit your movements and keep you confined as if you were a prisoner. The prisoner, they argue, is "happier". No word if the elites will get rid of their private jets and not stray far from their mansions.

“It’s tracing a path of community resilience,” says Flavio Coppola, C40 Cities’ programme manager for urban planning. “It reduces emissions through transportation, but also neighbourhoods are more resilient. It also means changing land use to allow offices but also ‘third spaces’ for people who are working remotely. So, at the neighbourhood-level, they will be more resistant to shocks.”

The shift in structure of cities will also mean that individuals themselves will be more resistant to shocks, according to Richard Bentall, a psychology professor at the University of Sheffield who studied the mental health and social impacts of Covid-19. The sense of belonging promoted by 15-minute cities, he says, could make us all happier.

How '15-minute cities' will change the way we socialise

A new urban planning model will change the French capital – and could provide a template for how to create stronger local communities and make residents happier.

www.bbc.com

Creating a city of 20-minute neighborhoods is a key policy direction of Plan Melbourne 2017-2050. As the plan states: "The 20-minute neighborhood is all about 'living locally' – giving people the ability to meet most of their everyday needs within a 20-minute walk, cycle or local public transport trip of their home."

The 20-minute neighborhood: Why isn't it a key policy direction?

We were heavily involved in the consultation program for Melbourne's long-term land-use plan, Plan Melbourne. The idea that resonated most with many participants was shaping the city as a series of 20-minute neighborhoods.

phys.org

The idea is relatively simple. Residents should have everything they need within a 15-minute walk or bike ride from home. “Transforming O’Fallon into a 15-minute city will help make our lives more convenient, less stressful and more sustainable,” the plan suggests. Easy enough to imagine in Paris, where there’s fresh bread on every corner. But in a sprawling section of the American midwest?

O’Fallon’s commitment to self-sufficient districts shows what a sensation the 15-minute city has become since Paris first embraced the idea three years ago. In September, C40 Cities, the network of leaders from the world’s largest cities, partnered with UN-Habitat to deliver proof of concept through five pilot projects. The journalist Fareed Zakaria endorsed the idea as a principle for the post-pandemic world. Deloitte identified it as a key trend in its 2021 study of the urban future.

Is the tiny little neighborhood the city of the future?

Why the hyper-local ‘15-minute city’ is gaining ground in urban planning circles

www.theguardian.com

Around the world there is growing interest in creating places in which most of people’s daily needs can be met within a short walk or cycle.
The benefits of this approach are multiple: people become more active, improving their mental and physical health; traffic is reduced, and air quality improved; local shops and businesses thrive; and people see more of their neighbours, strengthening community bonds.

The 20-minute neighbourhood

tcpa.org.uk

It's utterly laughable that they care about our "well being" and "mental health".

 

[Tom Slick]

There's already been some pushback from locals in Oxford where it was first introduced. I saw that some bollards were knocked down within a few days of being put up.

I don't think that even enough of the vax lovers will readily accept this. We've been living with cars for too long. Contrast with China, where personal car ownership has only been happening on a large scale for about 20 years and onerous traffic controls and ubiquitous toll roads were only made the norm less than 10 years ago there, and I think it can be seen what kind of society would accept this.

Also, there were strict traveling restrictions in Australia during the lockdowns, but nothing like 15 minute cities. I think this will only be enforceable when the control grid is coupled with cashless CBDC's and every rule violation can be automatically punished by instant withdrawals from your bank accounts, again as they're doing now in China without mandatory cashless or CBDC's.

 

[budoslavic]

WEF has been pushing pretty hard for "15-Minute Cities" agenda.

The 15-minute city meets human needs but leaves desires wanting. Here’s why​

The 15-minute city meets human needs but leaves desires wanting

Various places around the world have begun to embrace the 15-minute city, but the model risks excluding disadvantaged communities

www.weforum.org

The surprising stickiness of the “15-minute city”​

The surprising stickiness of the “15-minute city”

Prior to the pandemic, few planners would have taken seriously the idea that “home” become the central organizing factor of all urban planning.

www.weforum.org

The 15-Minute City​

The 15-Minute City

A new model for developing mixed-use, walkable communities, known as the 15-minute city, is gathering momentum in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. How does this model work for businesses, workers, communities and our planet? Simultaneous interpretation in English, French, Spanish, Chinese...

www.weforum.org

 

[Yamamoto the Third]

In the Coronavirus pandemic in Australia, many people were limited to their "local government area", a small collection of suburbs measuring roughly 5-10km x 5-10km. You could print a map and mark the streets representing the border of this area, with harsh penalties if caught stepping beyond those streets. After a certain point in time, these restrictions only applied to those without proof of covid vaccination.

 

[Hermetic Seal]

It sounds appealing in theory, but of course our social engineering overlords have ulterior motives behind it all.

In theory I love the idea of being able to walk or ride a train for all my daily needs. In urban and suburban Japan, for example, this is the norm. It annoys me that here in the southeast US I need to get in my car to do absolutely anything, but at least some soy-overdosing middle management social engineer isn’t manipulating my environment for his own purposes.

 

[Feyoder]

WEF has been pushing pretty hard for "15-Minute Cities" agenda.

The 15-minute city meets human needs but leaves desires wanting. Here’s why​

The 15-minute city meets human needs but leaves desires wanting

Various places around the world have begun to embrace the 15-minute city, but the model risks excluding disadvantaged communities

www.weforum.org

The surprising stickiness of the “15-minute city”​

The surprising stickiness of the “15-minute city”

Prior to the pandemic, few planners would have taken seriously the idea that “home” become the central organizing factor of all urban planning.

www.weforum.org

The 15-Minute City​

The 15-Minute City

A new model for developing mixed-use, walkable communities, known as the 15-minute city, is gathering momentum in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. How does this model work for businesses, workers, communities and our planet? Simultaneous interpretation in English, French, Spanish, Chinese...

www.weforum.org

Once I see their name I know immediately it's has bad intentions.



Riiight...

 

[OhHeyCindy]

Being dependent on cars is a big problem in America. As EMJ says, the interstate highway system was one of the biggest forms of social engineering. Move the southern Blacks up and displace the Catholic ethnic neighborhoods and scatter people into the suburbs where they don’t know their neighbor and there is no organic way to get to know them since the only time they are out walking is when they are “going for a walk”, like for exercise. Then follows the decline in active parish participation and all the problems of declining religiosity. If the city wasn’t so morally and spiritually polluted , it would clearly be the ideal place to live. Walkability allows for tighter communities. If there was a city for example full of conservative Christians, that would be the best place to live.

Of course the motives of the elites here are not to help the psychological and spiritual health of people living in cities , but I think ironically city living is ideal for most people (except farmers), provided the city isn’t completely lost to degeneracy (yes , sadly basically every city is now is in this category)

To be clear when I am speaking of city living being good I am talking specifically of walkable , Euro type cities. Boston and New York are still very walkable while some of the newer cities especially in the south are completely car dependent. There you get the rot of the city with none of the benefit. Boston is still an aesthetically beautiful city and if only it weren’t so expensive and populated with libs , it would be a great place to live

 

[Seadog]

It sounds appealing in theory, but of course our social engineering overlords have ulterior motives behind it all.

In theory I love the idea of being able to walk or ride a train for all my daily needs. In urban and suburban Japan, for example, this is the norm. It annoys me that here in the southeast US I need to get in my car to do absolutely anything, but at least some soy-overdosing middle management social engineer isn’t manipulating my environment for his own purposes.

That's kind of my take as well. Honestly, I would love the idea of everything I need being within 15 minutes, coupled with a strong, high-trust, engaged community - Japan is the perfect example - some places in Europe 20+ years ago too, since cities were designed before cars were common place.

Not to mention in the US, like you correctly state, Everything was designed around 8 lane freeways. In some places it's literally impossible to walk to a store. And stores are anything but local and serving the 15 minute community. My city of 500k spans maybe 50km, has 5 walmarts, 1 costco, and maybe 20 big grocery stores. Are they planning on doing away with the whole concept of the super market and the box store? With the associated decreases in efficiency and increases in prices? That's what kills me. Everyone's all for local and green and blah blah blah, but as soon as it requires something more than spending 50 cents extra on light bulbs, their true colours show.

The question is, like free trade, will if go both ways? Will companies be forced to employ people within 15 minutes of their factories? Or will they continue to offshore jobs for pennies on the dollar while anyone with a financial interest is exempt from these rules? Free trade is great for companies, but if I want to "freely trade" with Americans to buy cheaper dairy, or even a neighbour who wants to make artisan cheese outside the clutches of the Canadian dairy cartel, we'd be fined or jailed.

 

[Going strong]

Unsurprisingly, the leader of the "20-minute cities" project in South America, is the lesbian mayor of Bogota.

Half of the supporters of this project are LGBTs, and it's not a surprise, considering that around 90% of the LGBTs worldwide live in very big cities, and fancy easy bicycle rides and cute walks in the neighbourhood.

Good news is, this devious project is hampered by a rift. A rift between right-wing and left-wing mayors, worldwide.

For example, last time the "C-40" met (in my backyard, so to speak), only left-wing mayors (and assorted alt-left politicians) came, the Conservative international mayors declined the invitation.

For instance, the ugly antiRoosh short-haired mayor of Barcelona came and did she speak, but, the elegant beautiful Conservative ruler of Madrid was nowhere to be seen. The organisers actually invited a... gay cuisine chef, and the French Greta (it's Greta bis, only taller and not ugly), to fill in for her.

A reminder that voting is not totally useless, by the way. Right-wing mayors are not the same as left wing mayors.

Now, limiting your movements within your own city, is just the first step of the Establishment... They're also very interested in preventing you from relocating by plane to a better country. Hence the prices of plane tickets having been multiplied by 3 since the false pandemia... It's all part of their plan against Conservative Flight.

They don't want you to flee neither to a better neighbourhood, nor to a better country. Stay put with the noisy migrants next door, stay at home watching Netflix, and if you absolutely have to get out, ride a gay share-ride (they don't even want you to own your bicycle, you have to use a city bicycle) bicycle for 10 minutes max.

By the way, pushing for bicycle rides like they do, has a price : today it was revealed, for example, that in the original "20-minutes" city, the number of cyclist deaths has increased by 30% in one year.

Because "cars are bad", sure, but good luck surviving any accident while riding a bicycle...

 

[Easy_C]

This is one of those things where I think the underlying concept is a good idea, but in practice we can reasonably guess there's malevolent motivations and aspects we don't see yet.

 

[Yeagerist]

This scheme is definitely the globohomo system's hijacking of genuine urban planning and transportation reform. Many Americans are already fed up with the problems of living in big cities and the industrial way of life in general. Rising rent, rising costs of living, highway traffic, poor public transportation, breeding crime + poverty + homelessness + drug use, etc. And so the WEF's tactic this time is to effectively trap people into human pens that will be turned into woke hippie communes.

But the general tone of this thread seems to be wanting to throw out the baby with the bathwater here. Zoning, housing and public transport reforms are genuine needs in America today. Your freedom to own and use a car is still constrained by the physical bounds of the road or highway, as well the presence of thousands of other automobiles which results in traffic jams. And living in an atomized suburb bungalow, where you need an SUV to make a trip to the pharmacy or big box store or strip mall just to buy stuff you need for the day, is still inconvenient for most people.

 

[Pete345]

China essentially had its 20-minute neighborhoods for decades, with millions of bicycles on the roads, and just a few cars. Sorry, I don't want to live like China ca. 1975. That being said, a corollary to the 20-minute neighborhood would certainly be the 1x communal electric car that is used by the whole neighborhood, on a points-based system, but owned by the Commie elitists.

 

[Tom Slick]

China essentially had its 20-minute neighborhoods for decades, with millions of bicycles on the roads, and just a few cars. Sorry, I don't want to live like China ca. 1975.

The Italian, card-carrying Communist film-maker, Michelangelo Antonioni made a documentary about this that was so simple and realistic that it was banned by the Chinese, and he didn't even show the cannibalism.

 

[scorpion]

This is tied in together with the absurd push to shift the entire population over to driving electric vehicles. The problem is that EVs simply cannot be adopted at scale at anything close to the numbers of regular gasoline powered vehicles. The rare earth minerals are not abundant enough, the electric generation and distribution capacity is not there, the charging infrastructure is woefully inadequate and the range and charging inconveniences associated with EVs make them largely unsuitable for purchase as an exclusive vehicle. All of these issues are going to become apparent over the next decade, after our psychopathic elites have already deliberately destroyed much of our existing gas-powered automobile infrastructure and manufacturing capability. At that point there will be no going back to good old fashioned internal combustion engines, and the associated freedom, mobility, reliability and independence from government they provide. Nope. Instead you will just be living in a 15 minute city and sharing access to an electric car. And if you piss off the wrong people or say the wrong things, your ability to access and charge a vehicle will be quickly revoked. They're selling it as being about the well-being of citizens. But it's clearly just about control. They want you living in a dystopian nightmare. That is literally their ideal vision of the future.

 

[Papaya]

This is tied in together with the absurd push to shift the entire population over to driving electric vehicles. The problem is that EVs simply cannot be adopted at scale at anything close to the numbers of regular gasoline powered vehicles. The rare earth minerals are not abundant enough, the electric generation and distribution capacity is not there, the charging infrastructure is woefully inadequate and the range and charging inconveniences associated with EVs make them largely unsuitable for purchase as an exclusive vehicle. All of these issues are going to become apparent over the next decade, after our psychopathic elites have already deliberately destroyed much of our existing gas-powered automobile infrastructure and manufacturing capability. At that point there will be no going back to good old fashioned internal combustion engines, and the associated freedom, mobility, reliability and independence from government they provide. Nope. Instead you will just be living in a 15 minute city and sharing access to an electric car. And if you piss off the wrong people or say the wrong things, your ability to access and charge a vehicle will be quickly revoked. They're selling it as being about the well-being of citizens. But it's clearly just about control. They want you living in a dystopian nightmare. That is literally their ideal vision of the future.

Here's me talking to my neighbors in 2030

 

[TooFineAPoint]

WEF has been pushing pretty hard for "15-Minute Cities" agenda.

The 15-minute city meets human needs but leaves desires wanting. Here’s why​

The 15-minute city meets human needs but leaves desires wanting

Various places around the world have begun to embrace the 15-minute city, but the model risks excluding disadvantaged communities

www.weforum.org

The surprising stickiness of the “15-minute city”​

The surprising stickiness of the “15-minute city”

Prior to the pandemic, few planners would have taken seriously the idea that “home” become the central organizing factor of all urban planning.

www.weforum.org

The 15-Minute City​

The 15-Minute City

A new model for developing mixed-use, walkable communities, known as the 15-minute city, is gathering momentum in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. How does this model work for businesses, workers, communities and our planet? Simultaneous interpretation in English, French, Spanish, Chinese...

www.weforum.org

A shame because one of my favorite pastimes when I lived in Europe was walking everywhere for hours each day. 15 min is no fun. The only way you get "everything you need" within 15 min is if all the supplies/services/shops are homogenized to a very mediocre standard.

I realize that walking for hours each day is not exactly efficient but it sure leads to a satisfying quality of life. Especially when you are walking and looking at beautiful architecture at the same time.

 

[Mrredsquare]

 

[budoslavic]

 

[budoslavic]

 

[Viktor Zeegelaar]

Seems to be a logical step towards the big city pod society, in which the countryside has been eradicated of the populace, and people live in tiny apartments and in a tiny section of the big city, so that they can be easily tracked, monitored and ultimately controlled. They are good at selling their product though, their PR is pretty good I've got to admit. It does take something to make people give up their lifestyle, families, and religious beliefs about eternal life for an utter crock of garbage. That they've pulled it of, no matter how evil, is quite a feat: convincing people to leave everything that worked for millenia behind them. Convincing them to leave their villa for a hut, that will be washed away by the rain and storm the moment it comes in.