Name: Should we all live in 15-minute cities? | BBC Ideas
Uploaded: 2022-07-27T17:37:15.000Z
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There is a big problem with air pollution.

without any kind of order or any kind of planning.

Half the world's population live in them,

and by the end of the century it will be more like 90%.

Over the last sort of 20 years, we've been talking about

but we've seen during Covid, people's dynamics

so this is a real moment in time where we have to rethink

and almost get behind a new vision of the city.

ARCHIVE NARRATOR: Ever watch the morning traffic

that takes up 130 square feet of space, more or less.

The main issue of cities is that they are suffering

So we think about, how many people can we get into the city

in the morning and out of the city in the evening?

Rather than travelling in from the suburbs to the centre

the 15-minute city takes a different approach.

The 15-minute city is a really simple concept,

in many ways. It's really just saying that

every urban citizen should be able to meet their basic needs

within a 15-minute walk or cycle ride from their house.

The concept of the 15-minute city was proposed by

French-Colombian scientist Carlos Moreno,

and aspects of it are starting to be adopted

in cities like Paris, Barcelona and Bogotá.

It's been described as a return to a local way of life.

New technologies creates a lot of opportunities

to get rid of this separation of work and living.

The 15-minute city revolves around three basic principles.

the entire Harry Potter series 159 times.

which is the interaction of people and creation of culture.

When we get rid of all those parked cars in the roads

and all the traffic, we create lots of space

and this also creates lots of opportunities

My favourite thing about living in the city -

the quality of public space, which encourage you of

spending a lot of time outside and meeting with other people.

would mean a significant redesign of our infrastructure.

we've had kind of 50 years of planning policy

which is about separating different types of activity

in the city where you would go for shopping

And so to be able to make that kind of pivot into a 15-minute

or a localised neighbourhood is a huge stretch for some places.

The concept of the 15-minute city also has its critics.

Some fear it could ghettoise poorer people

whose neighbourhoods don't have the jobs and amenities

A lot of places do not have enough infrastructure,

especially places where low-income groups live.

And it's a major, major wealth and economic gap there.

It's clear that there are different levels

of liberty and freedom to access public space,

We have an imbalance about who gets to shape public spaces,

So if we can democratise that and if we can open up

about what kind of spaces do we want to live in,

that our spaces are going to suit more people.

If we green the city, we create more opportunity for rainwater

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