15 Minute Cities! Exploring Transferability and the Life-Sized City

[@richardhobson5995]

Uk. It amazes me how many people today see the 15/20 minute city/neighbourhood as a threat to freedom and independence.

[@HigherQualityUploads]

A testament to how effective the car companies' propaganda has been.

[@moisesherrera71]

something else to add to this concept is the opportunities to socialize or be entertained? Do you have to leave your area to go to a concert? or to attend a book club? Are your neighbors your friends? Do you ever socialize with the people within the 15 min radius in the same way that most of us have global and urban social networks? Do you have higher educational opportunities? universities, private teachings? etc most people don't truly have a 15 min city if we define it as a microcosm of the entire city.

[@pialindh8716]

There is absolutely nothing that prevents you from walking/cycling/taking a bus or train to another part of the city for the places you want to visit, or even further to another city. The important thing is that you have what you need on a daily basis close to you. In my area we have 4 schools. We have the university about 15 minutes away by bus. The high school is the same distance. Then you have to remember that I live in an area on the outskirts of my city. There are also shops, bus stops, a railway station, doctor's office, several day care centers, green areas, outdoor gym etc. I have a large shopping center with about 40 stores, lots of cafes and restaurants and about 20 street malls, which I can reach by bus in 15 minutes or by bike in 10 minutes. If we are going to shop a lot or big things, we take the car (Yes, it is allowed to use a car as well). When we go to visit our children, or our friends who don't live in the same city, we can choose to take the train or car to them.

[@richard--s]

Make the work rides 15 minutes long: She works at the university, needs to be on the campus for her work, he works at a production company at the other side of the city. Together they have a 5 year old daughter. You would need a very fast transport system, very fast.

[@JoaoSantos-ur1gg]

The point is that their daughter can walk to school and the parents can walk to the supermarket instead of having to drive or take public transportation after a long day of work. It already happens in most European cities.

[@jameswilson1360]

If that's what you want...have at it. The problem is, the supporters of this always want to foist this on the rest of us. As for me I prefer to live 30 miles outside of a major Northeastern city....in my smallish, single family home on my half acre, in my low density historic town. Enjoy your conformity.

[@JacobBax]

No one wants to force you to live in a 15 minute city, it's more that people that love your lifestyle, fight against everthing that isn't your lifestyle. Most of my commute to work was atleast 2 hours a day by car, some times 3 hours +. Working all over the country, so moving was no option. Most of my normal errands I do by bike, 45 minutes max. So please don't force your way of life on the rest of us.

[@christill]

I looked at google maps myself to see what’s 10 minutes walk away. It’s actually not as bad as what I was expecting. There’s a couple of pubs, a couple of convenience stores, a few bus routes and a park. Not great but I was expecting worse. Either way, I’d like to move somewhere more convenient now we got rid of the car. I think we’re the only ones on the street now without at least one.

[@coolioso808]

Interesting to look into that for sure. I don't know if you are in Europe or America but I've found these places very different in terms of that "10 minute walk" radius for goods and services. I did a rough check of my 10 min. walk radius here in Canada and there are zero pubs, zero convenience stores (sad trend because there WAS for a long time a very close convenience store, but it closed down a few years ago), there definitely are bus routes and there are about 3 parks (two of them school-connected). The closest restaurants are all along a main road with no dedicated bike lanes, some sidewalks but not a very inviting walk to take. But I love these videos from this channel and others like it. It gives me ideas and hope that change can happen for the better, once again, in my town and any others that are getting further away from these walkable neighbourhoods.

[@christill]

@@coolioso808 South coast of the UK. Yeah hearing about your situation reminds me how our suburbs are generally not that bad. But it is getting worse over time with more and more car dependant development encroaching into the precious green spaces we have remaining.

[@coolioso808]

@@christill Yeah, interesting stuff. Europe had a good head start on building nice walkable neighbourhoods being developed well before cars were invented, while here in North America and definitely Canada, a pretty young country, we see the remnants of walkable neighbourhoods in our downtown core with mixed-use developments from a by-gone era, it seems, because our downtowns are often like ghost towns or dangerous and uninviting places to go much of the time because of the heavy suburban sprawl that tends to draw more people. I guess Europe isn't immune to that car-dependent push and suburbanization even though there is limited space. I hope it doesn't go too far off the rails. Probably would help if the global force market economic system wasn't so hell bent on growth and profit above health, efficiency and community.

[@christill]

@@coolioso808 Yeah it all comes down to the economic system for endless growth which has led to the far-right nutcase takeover. As far as Europe, there’s pretty big variation from country to country. The UK is one of the worst and most regressive. We just have our blinkers on and can’t recognise that the Netherlands or Denmark could be us. The propaganda over decades has worked. A different type of propaganda to what Russians have been exposed to, but still very damaging to our country and has led to our infrastructure being unfit for the modern world.

[@coolioso808]

@@christill Fair points. There seem to be a few, usually small, countries or cities that are immune to the hostile takeover by capitalist elite goons of the world and their influence on perpetual growth on a planet with finite resources, but most of us are still caught in the worsening storm. I do believe there are solutions to just about every major problem, like we find when we look at the sustainability and efficiency of 15-min cities, but I think the bigger battle that can't be avoided is shifting away from this anti-economical global system that has already been over-taken by the wealthy elites. System change is necessary.

[@garthwunsch]

I live in Northern Ontario, Canada. This idea is totally unworkable, and here’s why. Copenhagen (602,000) is 180 sq. kms and has 3,300 people per sq. km. My city (166,000) is 3,200 sq. kms and has 50 people per sq. km. Add to that the place is covered in snow nearly half the year… and I wouldn’t trade my freedom for a universe full of big cities. My city is 18 times larger than yours with only 27% of the population. It can take an hour highway driving just to get to our only hospital.

[@LifeSizedCity]

What a sad place. You should look to Oulu, Finland for inspiration. Winter Cycling Capital of the World.

[@JoaoSantos-ur1gg]

Being forced to drive in the snow doesn't sound like freedom to me.

[@garthwunsch]

@@JoaoSantos-ur1gg if ppl here don’t drive in the snow, the mines and smelters don’t operate… and you don’t have a lot of the metals we produce for your sheltered life. We provide your nickel for stainless steel, copper, gold, silver, many rare earth minerals that make the space program possible. Not everyone wants to, or can, live in a big city… I certainly don’t… hell, you don’t even have enough room to grow a carrot!

[@mikewade777]

@@garthwunsch the point you make is not relevant, because the average journey undertaken by city dwellers is under 5 miles, a walking, cycling distance. You may need a rocket to go to LEO, but a Satern5 to buy a carrot at you local grocery store is over kill.

[@karlInSanDiego]

I did this exercise for my rural village of Fallbrook, California, population 32,000, or 1,823 people per square mile across 17 square miles. Without density it's far from a walkable space for many who live beyond the interior of town. But it is bikeable and more so, e-bikeable, when an ebike can easily cover 5 miles in 20 minutes. But we need safe infrastructure to complete that shift. In my case, everything is less than 4 miles. The key to sustainable rural living is to still have a town center with amenities. We have 15 dentists, 11 general practitioners, 4 supermarkets plus 2 smaller markets. We have a movie theater, post office, library, and loads of restaurants. Schools are close, and even though we do have parks and recs and preserves, large yards means we have loads of green space around most homes. This isn't to knock urbanism, but we should think twice about writing off these spaces as unsustainable or less ideal than the dense urban model. As a climate advocate, seeking active transportation as a solution to Climate Crisis, and striving towards car free living with electrified public transit and AT, I suspect the insistence that density is a fundamental requirement for living locally needs reevaluation. The part that falls flat on the 15 minute city model, is work. With everyone working in the family (including parents and living-at-home-young-adults), it's unlikely you will all work within the confines of that 15 minute city, or even that some will, because people change jobs. So public transit must be ubiquitous to allow for people to change jobs without requiring a move which also compromises other family members' job proximity. Our discussions about urbanism should be honest about how far work is for each household member, and the struggles to maintain a reasonable work commute even though the setting is dense. That said, planners focus too much on work commutes and not enough about the many other trips that dominate our life. Your video is a great way to demonstrate to people how to assess what they can access without a car. Let's move the conversation beyond insisting that urbanism is the only way forward. We do all benefit from mixed used buildings and should remove zoning requirements to allow all spaces to organically expand amenities as the future of local living demands it to.

[@ImranShaikh-gh2wd]

Cant believe this channel hasn't got more subs - I love it . Thank you Mikael

[@krob9145]

I live in a 15 minute neighbourhood in a city in the UK, shops (bakeries, butchers, green grocers, coffee shops, wine bars, pubs, hairdressers, undertaker, internet café, bike shop), supermarkets, restaurants, banks, schools with nurseries for ages 3 to 18, bus routes to connect to underground, train station, cinema, library, post office, community centres, local sports centres including swiming pools (tennis courts, cricket grounds), doctors' clinics, pharmacies, parks and off road nature trail. I used to work in the neighbourhood too for years until I wanted a better job with better pay but now I can cycle to work too. I'd be hard pressed to want to move.

[@lamandhbbf3639]

Thanks for demystifying this whole concept, there’s been a lot of controversy around the whole idea in England, following a few measures Oxford council was planning to adopt to promote 15 min neighbourhood which i now know is nothing new, it seems like a great effort to improve the lives of people living in cities. Very helpful video

[@simonh6371]

It's a great idea. I can't wait for our cities and towns to be demolished and replaced with cities where this is actually possible. Either that or the compulsory purchase of every semi and detached house to be turned into houses of multiple occupancy.

[@LifeSizedCity]

Hahahahahahaha

[@Kevin-qn2kw]

The problem isn't the idea of 15 minute convenience. The problem is the monitoring and what might come next.

[@jameswilson1360]

Exactly !!!!

[@simonh6371]

They're rolling this out in London too. Not sure how they are going to deal with the sprawling Victorian suburbs, which is 80% of the city. Either demolish them and replace them with blocks of flats, or force all the homeowners to sell and convert their houses into houses of multiple occupancy. People here love their houses and cars more than they love their kids so good luck with that.

[@carolknapp4590]

His neighborhood formed naturally, by the people who moved there. It happened gradually. The 15- minute city as conceived by the globalists is a bunch of bureaucrats sitting in their little cubicles PLANNING how we will live our lives from the time we open our eyes in the morning until we go to sleep. I lived in the most "diverse" neighborhood in L.A. It happened naturally. But the bureaucrat-planned "affordable housing" projects would be filled by people of various ethnic groups in a way so as to conform to "their" ideas of "diversity".

[@alienlife7754]

And what if I don’t want to stay within my designated 15 minute zone? Do I need permission to visit another zone? Special papers? A numbered tattoo on my arm . . .

[@LifeSizedCity]

Hahahahah

[@JoaoSantos-ur1gg]

Are you on drugs or commenting on the wrong video?

[@mikewade777]

If your brain has wrinkles they let you travel anywhere freely. If your brain is smooth they'll sell you a plot of land on Jupiter.

[@djenkins555]

​@@mikewade777I bet your 15 minute mind is smooth.

[@mikewade777]

@djenkins555 No, That's just. Smooth brain not being able to comprehend.What the guy in the video is talking about

[@ConradRichardson]

Ah love it, might reproduce the same for my neighbourhood. I'm an urbanist living in Phnom Penh, Cambodia... my residential tower is in the middle of an informal settlement... pretty sure I live in a 5-second city.

[@jimbodice2672]

This reminds me of 15 days to slow the spread. Just replace days with minutes and spread with freedom. Same thing all in all though.

[@Foomandoonian]

I assume I know what a '15 minute city' is from the context of what you're talking about, but it would be good to get a definition up front!

[@FinarfinNoldorin]

There is nothing I can walk to within that time. Because of epilepsy, I cannot drive and have to rely on others to take me anywhere because the closest business is 20 minutes away by car. I am housebound because of it, and I absolutely hate it. I have always dreamed of living in a 15 minute city where I could ride my bike to get somewhere....anywhere.

[@li_tsz_fung]

10 minute walk: Residential, local shops, primary+secondary schools, parks, metro station 10 minute metro: Mall, express train station 10 minute express train: University, Major business district

[@jc84com]

this is awesome and yet so different. i live in suburbia outside of the city and if you dont have a car you struggle. car ownership here is over 100% per household. such a different world. i like this video.

[@gregvassilakos]

In my daily fact-check email form USA Today is an item about right-wingers falsely claiming that a 15-minute neighborhoods planning proposal in Ottawa would restrict the distance that residents can travel from their homes. The claim was made in a meme that is being shared on Facebook. The claim reads, ""Ready to be confined within 15 minutes of your home? For the rest of your life? It's coming and only people who are dead on the inside will not understand." Brace yourself for this to become a new front in the culture war.

[@JoaoSantos-ur1gg]

The far-right scum manages to be against anything that is basic common sense.

[@MarK-iw2xj]

Toronto here We have a lot of green space in our city and I'm very thankful for it. They are used as public spaces and add some Beauty to our city.

[@markcumbriauk]

Sounds more like a Prison to me.

[@herescheersbigears]

The Sheeple haven't woken up to the agenda yet!

[@LifeSizedCity]

Hahahahahahahaha

[@brassen]

Wish there were 30 min jobs so I could live my diurnal life in my neighbourhood

[@markjuarez6538]

What do you mean?

[@brassen]

@@markjuarez6538 Commuting takes about 4h each day, so I'd end up doing whatever I need around the area where I work, pre-pandemia times :-)

[@markjuarez6538]

@@brassen entendido! I totally agree with you! In the US and especially in my city, Los Ángeles, we are very behind :’(

[@dmd356]

Its only good if your politicians are good. Otherwise itll easily become a human farm in a sense. Just seems like a step towards herding, whether they play it beneficially at first but then suddenly upkeep is “too expensive” etc etc and then they want you to drive and do less, all while doing the wonderful things youll not be allowed or have any access too. Just my thought, i hate the subtly in the methods to increase control and tracking

[@BlondieSuperdog]

Mr Andersen must be one of the leaders to experience the 15 minute city first. His 8x12 apartment will have security who will control the doors; no windows or AC too energy wasting. Food will be reconstituted uncooked insect guts. No outside communications; no weapons, no extra clothing; just the standard orange jump suit. Security with high walls and gun towers will ensure no one leaves without community say. 10 years minimum stay; if not life; but you do get the option for doctor assisted limited life span. Bikes; shops, PO; all wasteful and unneeded CO2 producers. Community decides, you have all you need.

[@LifeSizedCity]

Hahahahahahahaha

[@wullewagner1840]

Oh no, no weapons, how can i protect myself now????!!!😱😱😱!!!!1!111!!

[@BlondieSuperdog]

@@wullewagner1840 No need for weapons in the 15 minute city; you'l have your cell was and security watching over you at all times from all angles, in the toilet, while you sleep and if you get a bit out of control there will be solitary, every 15 minute city will have tall walls with razor wire and watch towers, patrols with guards and dogs to ensure no one leaves without permission - yes your so right you need not guns ; you will be fully taken care of.

[@wullewagner1840]

@@BlondieSuperdog And where exactly is evidence for that, please send me a source!

[@wullewagner1840]

@@BlondieSuperdog And btw no need for weapon works really well in other parts of the world. I wonder why there are more school shootings in the US.

[@tbmpetsolutions]

The problem being the coercion penalties for non compliance. More like a prison the size of a city.

[@LifeSizedCity]

Hahahahahahahaha

[@JoaoSantos-ur1gg]

Are you on drugs or commenting on the wrong video?

[@jameswilson1360]

@@LifeSizedCity is that the best you have....??

[@7orx]

Bremen in Germany announced recently that they want to become a 10 minute city

[@RedShoesSmith]

Always great information, love seeing your personal experience in Frederikserg. For a future video it would be interesting to see inside the many interior courtyards, what similarities and difference they provide for their residence. Google maps is pretty limited to streets.

[@16nine]

Good idea!

[@mpugnale]

Nice like here in Stockholm! I'm kidding.

[@luisfj9]

It depends upon what do you want to achieve in the 15 or more minutes cities? for example if one wants to meet someone for a date for a potential partner in a city that maybe far from where you're at, how do you resolve that? because these cities have to evolve and continue to exist and sometimes they need new fresh new blood to keep things going and also some of these people will want something someone different like the partner that comes from another country that's is a big issue that needs and must be resolved for eveyone well being because it's not what your possessions that you have at the moment or where you live at the moment, it's going to be who your going to be with is the issue that truly matters in the end.

[@meeru6185]

> for example if one wants to meet someone for a date for a potential partner in a city that maybe far from where you're at, how do you resolve that? you take a train or a bus - public transport is widely available and reaches many parts of the country. not to mention a wide network of highways that get you between cities - and you can use a carshare on them as well! > because these cities have to evolve and continue to exist and sometimes they need new fresh new blood to keep things going we already have that - first, from rural populations coming to cities for economic opportunities; second, because there's a natural flow of youth going from suburbia to cities for freedom and the (middle class, at least) middle-aged people going from cities to suburbia for peace and quiet > also some of these people will want something someone different like the partner that comes from another country the guy literally said there's an international airport within 35 minute bike ride from his house. in many cities most people won't be able to get this fast to their airport with a car. not to mention that Sweden (separated by sea) is available in 30 minutes by public transport thanks to the bridge.

[@luisfj9]

That will definitely work in Sweden. How's that going to work in a large landmass like the United States or Australia or Russia or China. That definitely proposes a huge challenge. The 15-minute idea is not going to work in these places. Because our land mass is very big. And that definitely will be a problem. what's Works in Europe will not going to work everywhere else You must be aware of that

[@blancau8223]

when cbdc is rolled out with social scores(esg) and carbon taxes won't be as fun

[@LifeSizedCity]

Hahahahahahahaha

[@garthwunsch]

You can keep your civic prisons where you will eventually need permission to open your door. I will not succumb to 1984! You have a bike lane, and not enough space to grow enough food for your family! Oh… the government will provide… no thanks!

[@20quid]

Don't be silly Garth.

[@garthwunsch]

@@20quid What’s silly is trusting governments to have your best interest at heart! THEY DON’T!

[@LifeSizedCity]

Hahahahahaha

[@In_time]

@@LifeSizedCity at every comment that presents valid concerns and opposition, you just... _giggle._ 🤔 I hope you’re ok 🤡

[@thisisnumber0]

​@@In_time He's not ok, he's part of the problem. We have dark times around the corner.

[@theultimatereductionist7592]

In USA, we are always 5-minutes away walking to a massive parking lot.

[@stephenenders2066]

Rip maui

[@carkawalakhatulistiwa]

Is just like Soviet microdistrict 😂

[@steffenschaefer3246]

Thank you, some great observations. But something quite fundamental I think is missing in your list of Points of Interest in your neighbourhood... Do people in Frederiksborg have to work? Where can they work outside of home? (which is still a thing, for many people) Workplaces close to home - be it large commercial buildings and offices or small co-working places - have a very significant impact on the fact if people have access to work with only a short commute.

[@coolioso808]

I would think unless you design a city from the ground up with work centres/buildings being in dedicated central zones and public transit lines quick and easy to the city centre where some work places are in the same building as residential and other residential is just a hop, skip and a jump away in the outer zones, I don't think we can really make every daily task 15-minutes away from where people live. Where people live should remain some level of choice and I think the key is to have such good bike, walking and transit infrastructure that it makes it more convenient for most people to walk/bike/take public transit to work (which I understand many people in Denmark do). There are just some life situations and spread-out cities that will have to deal with daily car trips into work. Because jobs differ so much in the nature of how they operate or where people have opportunity. If someone is a web designer, yeah, they could work from home or maybe find a close common workspace building if they need in-person meetings, but if someone is a plumber, they need to be making visits to homes/buildings and to and from whatever store/wearhouse they keep stuff. In the future, I'm sure we could ensure those vehicles they take are environmentally friendly, EV and that they don't have to take too far of a drive from their base to serve people. It's interesting questions though, I do want cities to be as convenient to walk, bike and take public transport as possible. I think there are some more reasonable solutions in the short-term and some that likely need more long-term outlooks and planning to implement.

[@pialindh8716]

Everybody can work outside of their area. If it´s in the same city you can walk, bike, or take the bus. Is it in another city close by, you can take the bus, train or your car. It´s not forbidden to drive, but the thing is that you should not have to depend on a car.

[@Alacritous]

I just looked and Copenhagen is much further north, 55°N than my city(Calgary,Canada) at 51°N and we can only really use bicycles for less than half the year because of the weather. How cold does it get in Copenhagen? How much snow? Does the proximity of the Baltic sea moderate the weather extremes? We don't have a large body of water nearby in Calgary.

[@RedShoesSmith]

Think of Copenhagen as a 3.5C colder, cloudier, dryer, and more windy version of Vancouver if that helps.

[@Alacritous]

@@deanbrickland In Calgary, the bike lanes are where they put the snow.

[@robenglish416]

The Gulf stream helps keeping the weather warmer. Calgary must be inland climate, usually means colder in winter, but also warmer in the summer, depending on elevation of course.

[@maltehauge]

Coastal vs. inland climate

[@LifeSizedCity]

Mikael has THIS Instagram account to highlight how Copenhageners cycle in the winter: instagram.com/vikingsbiking/ - indeed, 75% of the citizens continue to cycle in the winter. The City of Copenhagen has an official policy that all cycle tracks have to be cleared of snow by 8AM - before the streets are cleared. Climate change in Denmark means milder winters of late. But with the wind chill, a winter morning with -2 C and a wind of 10 meters per second - it can get chilly

[@fattiger2000]

15 minute gated community. Then they shut the gate. Please, figure it out already people.

[@mikewade777]

You have one delusional fantasy

[@blairpike9857]

15 minutes it took to think up such unworkable rubbish!!

[@simonh6371]

It reminds me of the Simpsons episode where Homer becomes mayor. Amphibious garbage trucks.

[@LifeSizedCity]

Hahahahahahahaha

[@rangersmith4652]

Within a ten-minute walk of my home is the US, there are none of these things, only other houses. Zoning makes having anything that's not a single-family home within that distance illegal.

[@omarmyia]

Here in Bucharest we do have a 15 minute city, but not thanks to our urban planning (we only now started hiring some real professionals in some districts, the city was basically lawless after 1989), but, exactly as you said, because that's simply how cities used to be for millennia. We never got to the point where we really developed the automobile transport network and now we have a conflict between the motorists (who free demand parking in a 50% motorization rate city that has a Singapore-like density levels) and the young generation who looks up to cities like Copenhagen, wants to reduce the number of cars in the city and replace them with cycling infrastructure. Of course, they are being called Neomarxists for not bowing down to the inherent rights of the automobile to have every piece of infrastructure dedicated to it.

[@danac2899]

I am from Timisoara.The comunist build most of the cities with this 20/15min concept. Park,school, market, water fountain, kindergarten, clinics etc in each neighbourhood. There used to be a lot of urban planning during comunism. It only disappered after '89.

[@jessbarnes8521]

@@danac2899 yes, it is global totalitarianism. This month it’s Oxford, UK. Fines for leaving your zone over the prescribed allocation. The wealthy are less affected as they live in the centre close to beautiful facilities with well built, old buildings. In Australia similar plans are coming with identical, poorly built properties built in new outer suburbs far from teaching hospitals, universities and character. Incidentally, I chose to travel by public transport and shop locally.

[@Daniel-ef7nk]

As the WEF predicts you will own nothing and ve happy, so you will need a 15 minute city because your car is a thing of the past, also if you are not very rich, forget about international travel if you want to save the planet, amazing!

[@LifeSizedCity]

Hahahahahahahaha

[@IndustMachWerksofTX]

15 minute prison

[@LifeSizedCity]

Hahahahahahahaha

[@paulcollins5586]

Stupid idea it wont work.

[@LifeSizedCity]

Hahahahahahahaha it worked for 6000 years of urban life. Until fucking motorists messed everything up for human society

[@mdhazeldine]

Definitely one of the more interesting topics you've covered in a while. I live in a market town in the UK and I can walk pretty much anywhere in 10 minutes except to the doctors and a hospital. We love it it!

[@tautvydasderzinskas7546]

The problem is that next step after implementing this city metodology - do not allow people to leave urban areas. This permission deny will come trough climate change propoganda.

[@crushingalldeceivers]

Wait until they surround you with barricades and guards and tell you, you are not allowed to leave. Will you love it then?

[@andrew7955]

​@crushingalldeceivers take a look at your pfp, and follow its advice

[@starksenterprises]

What if you're not particularly fond of the area you live in, and pretty much daily travel to other areas to visit a significant other, gym, friends/family, cinemas, shops, restaurants, work etc? Some people live in a place because it's more affordable, not because they like the area or demographic! Now, we must be restricted with threat of punishment?! We're not farm animals cordoned off to graze grass... where is the democratic vote for each nation to vote on such a disruptive policy, or is there no vote as its a globalist one world government type dictate?! Often when utopia has been sold to the layman in the past, it has been anything 'but' utopia!

[@LifeSizedCity]

Hahahahahahahaha

[@shadowhall1501]

@@LifeSizedCity I have seldom seen such an immature reaction to anyone who disagrees with a deceptive idyll or even has a single critical thought or question to it. Sorry, but it hits the level of propaganda for the cities which starts to spread everywhere. Hahahahahaha?? Exactly - there seems to be no differentiated discussion allowed. It will be discussed anyway.

[@pialindh8716]

There is absolutely NOTHING stopping you from moving however you want, going where you want or moving to another area. It is NOT about controlled fenced areas. It's about wherever you live, you should be close to what you need most, without having to drive there.

[@Beeannks]

I hate the 20 minute city concept. I’m in Australia and live in rural country which I prefer. I don’t want to be surrounded by lots of people. I like having to spend an hour driving to shops or work. My town is being ruined by developers 😡

[@Akuma_Raou]

If you liked this video without reading their rules you were lied to and mislead with clear mis-information, how so did they explain the rules, punishments, fines, limits to how far you can walk and bike, curfew, limit to car travel 100 times 1 year, which will be reduced to 25 times 1 year and you have to get a permit from the council, permits are also limted!

[@LifeSizedCity]

Hahahahahahahah

[@thisisnumber0]

​@@LifeSizedCity Idiot

[@pialindh8716]

Are you living in thelululand? There is absoluely no rules, punishments, fines, limits to how far you can walk and bike, curfew, limit to car s or anything! Everybody has the freedom of walk, bike, travel, ( by car, bus train or whatever) as far we want and as much we want.

[@fletcherhamilton3177]

So, _every_ amenity will be in a radius of fifteen ~ twenty minutes? *Dentists, doctors, hospitals, optometrists, supermarkets, fruit and vegetables shops, schools, kindergartens, universities, restaurants, bars, clubs, gyms, libraries, parks and indoor shopping malls, transport hubs, museums, amusement parks, hotels and motels, bicycle parking, garages, boutique and antique shops, gasoline or ‘recharge’ stations / points, butchers, bakers, candlestick makers, florists, offices, banks, taxi stands, car sales lots, movie theaters, real estate agencies, churches, mosques and synagogues, shoe repair, key-duplicate makers and miscellaneous repair shops, tailors and alterations, travel agencies, cafés and coffee shops, sports stadiums, race courses, home amenity stores and showrooms, bus and train depots and local council buildings and graveyards (where a lot of additional people are going to end up as a result such communistic insanity),* _will all be within fifteen ~ twenty minutes, along with all our homes and tenements ? ? ? ? ?_ You people don’t think at all, much less understand how the world _actually_ works, do you? 😓

[@LifeSizedCity]

Hahahahahahahaha

[@pialindh8716]

You don´t need all of this on a daily bases, and when you need it, there is absolutely nothing that stops you from get there even if it´s 30 min away, or even one hour! I have half of it within 15-20 min by walking or biking, and all the rest within 10- 20 min by bus. And if we want to go to places that we don´t have ( like mosques, synagogues and amusements park, ) we just take the train to the big city close by. ( Malmö) We can also go to Copenhagen by train which takes 40 minutes in total from our city and visit their two large amusement parks. This means that we can cross the border from Sweden to Denmark without any problems.

[@ArqAEM]

Nice! Thanks for the clear explanation. There are a couple of things that were not mentioned, things like the health benefits of walking and biking against the use of the car, of course the environmental impact, the cost of maintaining the city, the importance of density , the better use of public infrastructure like libraries and theaters and many more. You touched on how density is required and how the car culture it’s pretty much the enemy. It would be nice to see how many parking spaces do you actually have in those radios compared to the typical suburban low density US city.

[@midramble7]

Is another key component residential mixed use zoning?

[@pialindh8716]

Yes. Everywhere in Europe has mix zooning. We have shops, café´s restaurants, doctors office, dentists, pharmacies, single-family houses, street houses, terraced houses, villas, and multi-family houses mixed in the same area. There are both bought houses and apartments mixed with rental apartments. well-off mixed with those who need help financially. All in the same area.

[@annegriffin2102]

Digital prison under the guise of smart cities. Is anyone awake?

[@LifeSizedCity]

Hahahahahahahaha

[@digital6string1]

Control,absolute control.

[@michaelculleton4072]

Brilliant video as always!

[@miranblazek5303]

It's a concentration camp by WEF

[@TheUntypicals]

Maybe do a video on school playgrounds being public playgrounds, could be shared with headteachers and teachers

[@covertcounsellor6797]

Problem is that its being used as a rationale for movement control. The analogy with the pre-industrial world is apposite. Its just a part of the re-feudalisation happening through the Great Reset. No cars for the peasants but plenty of carbon-belching private jets for the Elite. I personally dispute that we “went wrong” when the “cars came in”. Yes, I dislike the congestion and pollution, I get it, but cars FREED the middle class. Without private transport (and push bikes don’t count), the “citizen” becomes a subject, at the mercy of the Overlords. Interesting video though.

[@timeforchange3786]

Communism always moves the people out of rural communities and into urban communities for better surveillance. I have been expecting this since BLM but wasn't sure how they were going to do it. I knew the "transportation" money Biden got but didn't know how they were going to usher people into the Ghettos. Now, I know what to look for.

[@jl63023]

As if a reliable, consistent, expansive, affordable, clean and punctual public transit system wouldn't free the middle class as well. Look at Tokyo, those people are mostly middle class but they're likely freer than people in the West because they aren't slaves to their cars and the ton of costs attached to it, and instead use their vastly superior public transit system.

[@covertcounsellor6797]

@@jl63023 You obviously don’t live in a jurisdiction where the government SHUTS DOWN said public transport system when people look like gathering to protest or talk about things said government doesn’t like. I have. What you say _should_ be correct, but in the real world, with creeping totalitarianism being the prevailing theme of governments, it reads as a tad naive. The inherent reality of public transport is that it takes people only to places the government allows them to go. Agree about the costs (I’ve just parted with $1,500 in service costs to my Mercedes) but that’s a price I am happy to pay to go where I want, when I want (which POT simply won’t deliver).

[@simonh6371]

@@jl63023 Yes but they commute hours not minutes. Have you ever been there? I have. You see people dozing in the underground after a long day in the office, on their 2 hour commute home. That's why they introduced capsule hotels.

[@LifeSizedCity]

Hahahahahahahaha

[@Aurs1964]

What do you think about all the anxiety that people will be forced to STAY WITHIN their 15 minute neighborhoods? E.g. Oxford

[@LifeSizedCity]

Hahahahahaha

[@mikewade777]

People aren't forced to stay in there neighbourhood e.g. Oxford and never were.

[@pialindh8716]

NOBODY is forced to stay within the 15 min neighborhoods! Everybody can go wherever they want, but they have almost all they need within 15 min, to avoid taking the car to everything in daily life. It benefits health, the climate and the economy.

[@cerenalasse]

There is nothing I dislike about his video :D Cant believe I didnt discover this channel before. Thank you

[@gsaketi1381]

after watching your video, I just realized my neighborhood 15 min walk distance radius maybe have more facilities than yours. good topic

[@crushingalldeceivers]

Randy Hillier has made an excellent video regarding 15 minute cities, it explains very well what it means.

[@cujoyyc4453]

Thuis Randy Hiller? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Hillier Talk about outing yourself as a garden-variety QAnon Con.

[@exaltrestudio9489]

What is your suggestion about a 15 minute rural city? Like places with more farms than buildings. Do a 15 minute city need to have a certain population in order to work? I live in one and there is not much happening here in terms of buses and trains. Maybe in the future we will be like copenhagen but its hard to loose the vast hectares of rice fields.

[@LifeSizedCity]

If the rural town has a town centre with all the facilities and shops located in a central location, it creates a hub where all the people around gather to do their daily activities. So in a way, it's possible. Rural towns in Europe traditionally had everything located in a hub, including a market where the farmers sold their goods.

[@jessbarnes8521]

@@LifeSizedCity in Australia fields are being replaced by soulless suburbs which are intended to become 15 minute neighbourhoods. The buildings are already falling apart- these are not aimed at the elite. Where will the premiers live?

[@NoirL.A.]

i'm L.A. born and raised and this is a great idea but i can assure you many times over it will never happen here.

[@LifeSizedCity]

But LA was like this before the freeways. Watch Who Framed Roger Rabbit

[@NoirL.A.]

@@LifeSizedCity i know it was but i mean nowadays too many certain parties / special interest groups might lose money and they will never let it happen. it's definitely possible but highly unlikely.

[@mikewade777]

@@NoirL.A. special interest group lose money all the time, they know they have to get on board or lose out. LA is quite bike friendly.. In places.

[@twig3288]

Densely packing people into contained areas makes sense for easy governance especially when done in combination with programmable CBDCs and social credits. It will make life more bearable for those of us that are fed up with sitting in traffic jams in our Bugatti Veyrons on the way to the airport to fly out one of our yachts or villas in Tuscany 🤗

[@LifeSizedCity]

Hahahahahaha

[@inkira]

i mapped chicago 65th to howard. it was such a pleasure. thoughts provide attributes developing ways and spaces. just great , i enjoyed this information as if it were inclusion.

[@77tubuck]

Looking at that map it does not look like those things are within a 15 minute walk. They look like they might be a 15 minute bike ride away. If you believe in global warming and you support 15 minute cities I have a question for you. Is that as far as you are willing to walk each day to save the planet, just 15 minutes.

[@djenkins555]

Cant believe how many people want to be government prisoners.

[@pialindh8716]

No one in Europe will ever be prisoners to the government. It´s the other way around. They give us the freedom to have everything we need close AND we still have the freedom to go wherever we want. They gave us the freedom to choose more than just the car. That is REAL freedom!

[@kelleydennis2817]

Good for you!

[@hazalseherozkan6501]

Thank you so for this great explanatory video. But I have a question, what about the office spaces, how we avoid daily business trips ???

[@pialindh8716]

Offices are everywhere in the city, and there is no one to forbid anyone from going on business trips. Everyone can travel wherever they want.

[@MikeStedman]

Might have to move to Copenhagen!!

[@tourist06]

Finally I got to know someone who cycles to the airport as well!

[@thisisnumber0]

The end goal is no airports

[@Blackmamba12345]

Really cool and interesting about the play fields / parks etc. I am a grad planning student so I'm interested in this topic of 20 minute neighbourhoods. So did you use ArcGIS or Mapinfo to map this out and do radius measurements?

[@petarkoljensic7823]

you can use many different methods. contact me if you need some help

[@aoustenaloysious8324]

Love this

[@Havener90]

Cool approach. But there is a little mistake. Making a 15/20 minutes radius does not implicate real-time 15/20 minutes walk. There should be done an analysis which reflects the authentic walking distance using the street network, for instance the tools by ArcGIS or QGIS. This view changes a lot and brings other findings. But once again, I totally agree with your thinking.

[@positiveguy]

That's not an Isochrone Map, but yeah, easier to understand it..

[@jobbvir1]

Great info. The walkable city was actually basis of all city planning since people came to live together. I hope planners around the world learn more about this and rethink when preaching about SMART city.

[@jobbvir1]

I hope you don't mind my taking the info and post on my facebook for sharing in Thailand where most people are still car fanatics. Some planners go to attend meeting on bicycle subjects in their gasoline or diesel engine cars and talk about smart city!

[@ElectricityTaster]

Aah shit, Mikael. You've been reading the comments again, haven't you?

[@Gods_Aviator]

Allowed to leave your 15 minute neighbourhood 100 times a year per household. After that you have to ask permission. My child is disable he can’t ride a bus or a train.His school is 20 minutes away. He loves to go on British holidays. He wouldn’t understand why he wouldn’t be able to go. This concept is really only to cater for the young people who have a use for the governments. This planet is ours not governments and ogliarths.

[@LifeSizedCity]

Conspiracy theorists with wacky bullshit comments make my day!

[@Droxal]

@@LifeSizedCity It's so sad that basic improvements to cities and quality of life are now part of some grand conspiracy theory. Actually, it's kind of encouraging

[@cdsung6527]

It doesn’t mean you can’t leave your neighbourhood, it’s your car that can’t, you can freely move. If your disabled son can’t use buses and trains then lobby your mayor to make public transport accessible for all.

[@mikewade777]

In Britain like many other place there is transport provided, there would be no limit. Also i believe you are not British.

[@pialindh8716]

@@cdsung6527 You can move exactly how you want, wherever you want, even by car! It's about being able to be close to everything even without a car. It's about having the freedom to choose not to use the car for everything.

[@thastump]

Hey, I can see my house (apartment building) from there!

[@Susan-kd3rv]

Carlos morento m19 movement .

[@avryptickle]

Come fix LA. I’ll be super grateful.

[@stefanosanastasi99]

never clicked so fast before...

[@Akuma_Raou]

All lies!

[@LifeSizedCity]

Hahahahahahaha

[@noobsaibot5285]

Is it 15 ? Is it 20 ? It is what they tell you mate!😂

[@joshcoppicemerchant595]

They wish to imprison you in a ghetto.

[@LifeSizedCity]

Hahahahaha

[@rizanfs]

What a great content

[@carmellakay8213]

Dodgy

[@FT4Freedom]

They don't want you to move around more than 15 minutes. Freedom of movement.

[@mikewade777]

nope that is not what a 15 minute city is.

[@pialindh8716]

We have the freedom of movement in all of the European countries. Even between the countries! I live in a city in Sweden and have been living part time in Copenhagen in Denmark. A lot of people live in Sweden and work in Denmark and some live in Denmark and work in Sweden. We can take the train to every country in Europe whenever we want. Anybody can work, move for an education or for anything else whenever we want WITHOUT passports if it´s an EU country. ( There is 27 European countries within EU´s organisation, so not all of the 45 in total)

[@66gmoney]

NWO ,,The great reset 😈

[@Zorigtuya]

thank you!

[@sammujkic7869]

Divide Impera hmmm Hunger game nothing good , prision , concentration camp prison etc figure out eliets gangsters Simple control hmm u getting on my nerves sheep 🐑

[@jorgitoviejoamigo2736]

BEST SERVICES YES, GUETTOS NEVER MORE !!!

[@pastequeman]

Life size city is a great show but sometimes you sound pedantic....

[@B.I.-EIO_macdonald9786]

If your living on the boundary lines. Its not 15 minutes.

[@LifeSizedCity]

But the people on the boundary lines also have 15 minutes to everything they need. Not just my location. The whole city is neighbourhoods like this.

[@B.I.-EIO_macdonald9786]

@@LifeSizedCity of all the people in the world Imagine being limited to those in your confined space

[@B.I.-EIO_macdonald9786]

@@LifeSizedCity and each prison yard needs guards. Because really Nobody wants to be confined. So who chooses the wardens. ? What do the wardens care about? Keeping you in line. Im sorry. But i will never ever go for this bs.

[@mikewade777]

@@B.I.-EIO_macdonald9786 You are not limited to those 15 minute zones, you are not confined beyond being a prisoner in your own mind. If you can't be ass'ed to leave the car a walking cycling distance, and you get fined and fined and fined and end up in critical debt, then I no more sympathy for you than you did the neighbourhoods you pollute. Whilst you struggle with debt i'll continue to live debt free, walking and cycling when an where Iike, shopping as many zones and towns and cities as Ilike.

[@B.I.-EIO_macdonald9786]

@@mikewade777 you have me mistaken for someone that cares what you think about it. Im not you.

[@tassie7325]

You seem to have missed the most vital aspect from your map representation - How far is it to your place of work? Now, I can hazard a guess that you work form home as most of the people that advocate for this lifestyle seem to either work from home or in one of the offices in the city where they live. But what about everyone else. And re the sporting facilities, there is a big difference between having access to facilities for general use and having access to competition grade facilities. Kicking a ball around with the kids is not the same as playing in organized teams of varying grades The other thing you need to be mindful of in this day and age is that your facts can be checked. Its very convenient to put white squares on a map to indicate where various facilities are purported to be. But a quick look on Google Earth enables viewers to spot flaws in your representation.

[@mikewade777]

how far is you place of work is not relevant

[@tassie7325]

@@mikewade777 How so???

[@mikewade777]

@@tassie7325 1 you can move closer 2 if its in a walking /cycling distance you don't need cars.

[@pialindh8716]

You can work wherever you want. It´s not relevant. The thing is that you can work in another city and choose to get there by bus, train or a car, whatever that suits you best. The the important thing is that you have everything you need otherwise without needing a car.

[@tassie7325]

@@pialindh8716 Of course it relevant. Most people work five days out of seven, meaning more days at work than at home. When at a place of work, most people eat their lunch at a place close to their place of work, they don't go home for lunch. Then there is the social aspect of work. When socializing outside of work hours people will gather at a place for entertainment in whatever form suits them in any given location. They don't all return to their hives