The 15-minute city | Carlos Moreno

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Living in a city means accepting a certain level of dysfunction: long commutes, noisy streets, underutilized spaces. Carlos Moreno wants to change that. He makes the case for the "15-minute city," where inhabitants have access to all the services they need to live, learn and thrive within their immediate vicinity -- and shares ideas for making urban areas adapt to humans, not the other way around.
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[@mtumasz]

Most European cities under half a million population offer a 15 minute life

[@mtumasz]

@muylly true. I specifically said „offer” as it’s a choice you can make in these cities and it’s not limited to super-rich. I chose to have a 15 minute life at the cost of more noise/pollution, rented car park and no hope for a garden, some of my friends choose a house in the suburbs and a 2 car lifestyle. My point was that the idea of a 15minute life can be realised in most European cities larger than 100k and smaller than 500k population. Larger cities have that option too but scarcity leads to astronomical prices

[@mihirm3632]

Now talk about usa!

[@mihirm3632]

@@mtumasz yeah but the 2 car lifestyle is destroying the planet

[@mikeakerr27]

Move

[@NeilCWCampbell]

@@mikeakerr27 move where?

[@pepedomingo4061]

sounds very similar to the college experience, the only time in most americans’ lives where they live within 20 min walking to all the essentials

[@AssBlasster]

Except a cheap grocery store. Got to leave campus for that

[@StreetcarHammock]

@@AssBlasster depends on the college, many have grocery stores right next door

[@matthewmorris5128]

also a reason why the college experience is so enjoyable !

[@markhemsworth2670]

funny how that works...must have something to do with the high density living as a starting point.

[@rendafranker7088]

But it wasn’t all the essentials. Dentists, doctors, and choices were not witin 15 mins

[@Jack-ny7kn]

One word: Zoning. Were it not for draconian zoning laws we would already have 15 minute cities. They would be the rule, not the exception. The two almost ubiquitous zoning rules that killed them was banning mixed commercial and residential, and banning accessory dwellings. No accessory dwellings means not enough density to support local neighborhood shops, and not allowing mixed commercial and residential meant that we ended up with supercenter type shops. We don't need more regulation to make this happen, we need to simply end the idiotic regulations we already have.

[@rendafranker7088]

Yea it’s a shame we don’t have these prisons.

[@Jack-ny7kn]

@@rendafranker7088 It didn't have to be though, and that's what's so frustrating. Were it not for a hundred years of tyrannical zoning laws that micromanaged what people were allowed to do on their own property (in the interest of not offending the aesthetic sensibilities of a few rich assholes), what they're describing would just be how things are. And what Oxford is doing wouldn't be necessary, because that's simply how the vast majority of people would already be voluntarily living, without any need for government intervention. I just love how their solution to the problem they caused isn't to roll back their idiotic laws, but rather to install checkpoints and literally imprison people in places that they ensured don't have the jobs and services they need. It's so fucked up level evil I don't even have the words for it.

[@rendafranker7088]

@@Jack-ny7kn I disagree. No one wants a gas station popping up next to their home or a honkey tonk bar. The people want zoning. Not only that competition is good. People want several venues to chose from for groceries or anything else. Chances are ,you won’t like the dentist in your area or he is too expensive. These 15 minute cities will be prisons. They will get more and more restrictive. You can’t leave unless it is allocated. Who monitors the psycho, control freaks on the city council? They’ll do what they please and be happy you don’t . The European Union declared it is a human right to have freedom of movement and in the US, thee is the 5th amendment and this, The U.S. Supreme Court in Crandall v. Nevada, 73 U.S. 35 (1868) declared that freedom of movement is a fundamental right and therefore a state cannot inhibit people from leaving the state by taxing them.

[@circle11111]

Regulations is what is preventing this.

[@TheCastedone]

how can we reverese this zoning issue

[@Gaspo123]

I lived in a town of 6000 people once, I could go home for lunch on my break, leave 10mins before the start of work and have time to spare, now I live in city of 4.5 million people. It takes me at least 1 hour to get to work, on a bad day 1hour 30.

[@patrickwoodrum500]

Move to a cruise ship. All you need in a 3 minute walk.

[@janoluhs4056]

Being FORCED to drive a car to reach points of interest is dystopian. Having the CHOICE to drive or cycle or walk is FREEDOM.

[@TheViewC]

thank you whoever wrote subtitles

[@margorobbie998]

There are auto generated 😂 His sounds like his tongue was beaten by bee🤨

[@ABCDPOLITY]

@@margorobbie998 No, in case of TED and many other educational videos, as willed by the channel, subtitles are pre written. 😀

[@margorobbie998]

@Naturally Perfect it is not fiesty, actually it is feisty;)

[@aeaeeaoiauea]

@Naturally Perfect Do you know about captions? That's what we mean by subtitles, not subtitles in the video.

[@aeaeeaoiauea]

@Naturally Perfect Yeah, I didn't really think about what my name should be, just typed some random vowels, I should probably change it in the future. I think you don't know about closed captions... I'm using a mobile phone so I don't know how to do it on computers, but there's a setting that shows the subtitles that are made for the video. If you're using a mobile phone, there's a button with three dots at the top right corner, if you press it you can change the speed of the video, turn on captions, and some other stuff. I don't know if other devices have the same thing, or if there are phones without it.

[@HigherQualityUploads]

I don't understand the people regarding this as a prison. How is car-centric living freedom? It's already far more regulated than biking/walking/transit riding will ever be. You rely on government-funded roads, government-subsidized fuel, and government-funded traffic control systems. You also have to register yourself and your vehicle with the government in order to operate your car. They are not going to use this long term plan to reconstruct cities in order to limit your freedom in the 15 minute zones when they could just suspend your motor vehicle license now.

[@LaserBread]

They're afraid of it because TV Man was paid by Big Oil to tell them that Karl Marx was personally going to put them under house arrest.

[@circle11111]

Notice how no one engaged. 😂 people are scared of progress.

[@wullewagner1840]

You're right

[@Ben-0]

Finally! A sane person!

[@patrickwoodrum500]

They left out the part where they can shut down access to these isolated city centers. Travel is frowned upon in the future they want. Unless you are an elitist leader of course.

[@mehekapoor]

I live in the Netherlands. Apart from the few big cities - all mid-sized to small cities offer 15 min life already!

[@Chris-op7yt]

it's been done before. in the old town i was born there was a city sqare. it was a small park with seats and a fountain, and was surrounded by shops and cinema and eateries. very different to modern city malls, that maximize capitalism at the expense of quality of life. here where i live now in melbourne australia we have some parks at the edges of the city, which are completely removed from any amenities.

[@lonalxaia]

This time with social credit.

[@joew2842]

@@lonalxaia some sources for that?

[@rendafranker7088]

Ah, capitalism , that gives people jobs, incomes and choices

[@madamedefarge9503]

Yes, done before. Warsaw, Poland during WWII. Nazis had the Jews confined to the Warsaw Ghetto. Did not end well.

[@joew2842]

@@madamedefarge9503 this is Not Whats Happening... and also a Punch of the Face of every victim of the Holocaust. Naziscum

[@MichaelWolfe1000]

...in many ways a good part of my city is a 15 minute city (shops, bakerys etc.) except for going to work and higher education, that's where it all crumbles... and people have to often take 2 or more hour commutes...Mexico City.

[@slice1208]

If this is a good idea, all you would have to do is get rid of zoning regulations; but something tells me people don't want to live near a factory that runs 24/7.

[@venom5610]

Me who isn’t a city planner high school drop out learned this is the way from playing sim city😕😕😕😕 shows how simple mankind is

[@carkawalakhatulistiwa]

Car😂

[@Sage1Million]

@@carkawalakhatulistiwaThe idea is that we right now in America have cities built in a way that makes people need to drive everywhere whenever it would be less expensive and healthier for us to be able to walk to get to places we want to go.

[@emilemil1]

I don't know about other cities, but in mine you can already get to everything you need in your daily life in a 15 minute bike ride. That includes a school, restaurants, a grocery store, an apothecary, a gym, etc. Though of course some things are not that close, since you can't place universities or hospitals everywhere. The caveat is that you need to live near the city center, which is the complete opposite of what most people want, especially those in their thirties and up who've started a family and want nice, green and open areas for their kids and pets, and who have the income to afford it. Apartments in the city center that are close to everything mostly appeal to younger adults and the elderly. What you've also got to consider is that the biggest factor to being able to bike everywhere is living close to your workplace, and most people can't live that close to their job. And if like me you live in a cold climate, traveling by bike in the winter is awful, and on very snowy days you can't walk either unless you want to push through knee-deep snow.

[@wernerrietveld]

If I had a family, I would love my children to be able to go to school and to visit friends or play in a park independently. Which is impossible in the typical north American suburbs, which are so large and sparsely populated that these destinations are rarely close enough to walk of cycle to alone for a child, nor is the traffic safe enough. Many (mainly southern) European city neighbourhoods are much better, with plenty of families with children nearby to find friends, public space reserved for plazas and sport fields instead of roads and parking lots, and a school in every neighbourhood.

[@aa_kozyreva]

That's it! Universities, hospitals and factories are can't be places in every district of a city. What about parks so it would be great if there could be at laest one park in each district to walk in the evenings or have a picnic with a family on weekends... But in Russia there is often just one park in the center of a city (( So as for me the idea is not perfect but very interesting and progressive. It would be great if governments all over the world started to think that way

[@trentondelao6192]

What are you talking about? City’s centers are always more expensive than the outer areas of a city. City centers are very very often the most expensive places in city’s. Also you’re wrong about most people wanting to live in the suburbs the opinion of living in a dense area close to stores ect has changed widely

[@emilemil1]

@@trentondelao6192 An apartment in the city center is more expensive than an apartment in the suburbs, yes, but I was talking about properties with decent gardens and not as much traffic that is dangerous for kids. You only find that in the suburbs. The market trend I mentioned was based on analysis done in ny country. Families at least here want to live in the suburbs. Also we don't have megacities, so the difference between suburbs and city center is like a 5-15 minute drive.

[@kylemcmillan2866]

I’m in my thirties with two toddlers, love grassy lawns and open spaces and can’t stand the thought of not being able to live in the city. Like Moreno said, I’d rather the city change than make soul-crushing compromises, esp as a black person who’d be likely to have exactly 2 black friends if we moved to a suburb commiserate with our decent salary, forced to buy a large expensive car just to meet my daily needs. What’s aspirational about that?? The narrative that “most ppl prefer not to live in the city center” must stop. 1) A healthy city isn’t defined merely by its center, and there should be plenty vibrant urban communities all around it. 2) Ppl just do what they gotta do to survive - moving to less dense areas is nowadays purely an economic decision for many/most since the city center has become so commodified. Have you ever considered WHY everybody’s job is so far? Plenty of history and current policy to be challenged. Also, people make valid complaints about the difficulties of using alternative modes of transportation and ignore a whole century of painstaking research, sacrifice, resource perversion, and geopolitical turmoil to help make the automobile successful. We can CHOOSE to make biking and walking pleasant and effective 365 days a year in most climates if we/ppl in power so wanted.

[@carmennavarro4452]

Si tan bonita es no entiendo porque en Oxford donde ya lo están probando están tan descontentos y dicen que es inadmisible esa falta de libertad. Es que lo he visto en las noticias

[@Doesch]

si claro porque si el unico lugar es donde puedes ir es 15 min. desde tu casa, eso te quita la libertad... Nadie quiere vivir encarcelada en un solo barrio

[@Hypotaksen]

I'm sorry to say, but his english so poor it's distracting. Interesting topic tho, subtitles recommended.

[@brocanova]

His E(!)nglish is aok but the pronunciation requires some focus of us...

[@WhatYaReading]

I just want to work from home 😂😂

[@bobbyc1120]

You can tell a lot about a city's values by how far apart the houses are. What's more important: a big grassy lawn for everyone, or the ability for children to walk to school?

[@DerrickPerrin]

We have a large lot of grass and trees. It is also the playground for our children to play since we home school. Traded a big yard for getting in a car/bus and driving every day.

[@thebrunetteinroom7]

@@DerrickPerrin that will be illegal soon enough

[@genkiferal7178]

some areas have both. as a kid, we used 2 connected lawns to play football. our dog ran outside on the front lawn. we sat on the lawn to talk and wave at people driving or walking by.

[@mikeakerr27]

Consult with a physician in your area to find out if Lithium is right for you 😉

[@bobbyc1120]

@@thebrunetteinroom7 You're pretty far off the mark. In most places in the US, it's illegal to build anything other than single family homes. Places like California are moving to *allow* multifamily housing on any lot in the state. But if you want to buy a lot and keep it to yourself, that's your prerogative.

[@TevoSaks]

I suppose entertainment services are too costly to build in 30min distance from each other. These I assume are still far away from Clients? Who decides and what have been thought of to be the critical institutions/businesses inside the 15min radius from the person.

[@kevinpatrickcarey3741]

so how are they going to fit a vast amount of businesses into these small ghettos I wonder. Will everyone be doing the same type of work depending on where they get assigned to these ghettos?? will there be an all office work ghetto, an all physical labor ghetto lol lol

[@LaserBread]

Public transportation exists.

[@bluefmi]

"Who decides and what have been thought of to be the critical institutions/businesses inside the 15min radius from the person" it's not the unwashed masses, that is sure

[@chellinacell7450]

He was a member of the M-19 so let that that sink in with his ideologies...

[@sandranosocialism1780]

So many complaints on his accent. I thought he did a nice job. However transformation of existing cities would have to be done in stages at a great cost. Personally I hate cities. Took me awhile to afford getting out. I'm not near all those things he talked about but it is fine with me. I don't like sports or museums. I'm not a people person and having great numbers of them around me is uncomfortable. I think he is almost trying to create several small towns within a city. Not everyone will like this as some people like crowds and noise. To each his own. I do see it being very difficult to achieve though

[@Joedem92]

The premise of the presenter is that everyone is exactly the same, with exactly the same interests, hobbies and motivations. Everyone likes different balances of everything.

[@sandranosocialism1780]

@@Joedem92 I thought he sounded rather utopian dreamer too but he makes a valid point in having more greenery and faster access to necessities. The whole problem though is cities grow and shrink depending on the economy and availability of work. This makes it quite a challenge to design them.

[@timeforchange3786]

It will be achieved like the Germany Ghettos.

[@timeforchange3786]

@@Joedem92 that is what communes are.

[@kevinpatrickcarey3741]

@@sandranosocialism1780 its not like crime is going to magically vanish can have all the greenery you want wont stop you from getting mugged walking to everything

[@pinnedcomment8614]

fact of the day: The match was invented after the lighter

[@jackgu9889]

For real?

[@parrot.E]

Really?

[@handl3_me]

No way😵

[@tilakc3732]

Wait. You guys didn't know this earlier!?

[@jackgu9889]

@@tilakc3732 if we knew do you think we would have asked it?

[@jerryhall5709]

In your 15 minute city you will have your local serial killer. Everybody knowns that squeezing people together creates problems.

[@kevinpatrickcarey3741]

yah exactly all these plans never talk about the reality of crime. Its not going away its going to get much much worse.

[@NeilCWCampbell]

Yeah but I can imagine all those villages losing their minds if we all moved their.. plus who paying for us all to move out of city

[@MrRourk]

As a country boy just shake my head - Not for me

[@valerieannrumpf4151]

It's not for me either.

[@loumencken9644]

@@valerieannrumpf4151 Me neither, but that doesn't matter. The WEF tyrants and Climate Communists will impose it on their serfs whether they want it or not.

[@valcs-dreamscollector3258]

they will use ai drones and robots to capture and shove you into smart gulags. all thanks to Tal pio t P ro ject , Unit 82 00 and Intel

[@ianhomerpura8937]

People walked before cars became popular in the 1950s, even in the countryside.

[@MrRourk]

@@ianhomerpura8937 look up Grandma Gatewood

[@runaway-inagoodway]

Can you add Japanese translation ?🙌 I couldn’t catch some part of this video using translator

[@insertnamehere5809]

The Warsaw Ghetto was a 15 minute city

[@ianhomerpura8937]

Same thing with the Japanese concentration camps across the US.

[@MrGeorge514131]

Back to the “village” way of things. Only thing wrong, very wrong at that , is that not all areas have these facilities in place. The area where I live doesn’t have the requirements of quality I want

[@kevinpatrickcarey3741]

makes sense Wokism and Extreme Environmentalism is taking the world backwards...soon we all be getting smallpox again milking the cows

[@aured1310]

So how are they going to force businesses to set up shop in low income 15 minute districts? Have they ever heard of food deserts? So poor people will just have to do without essential goods?

[@abnerruiz4011]

??? Have you not heard of the poor suburbs? Food deserts are more likely to exist within the suburbs due to less access to transportation due to car centric infrastructure. And if you can’t afford a car in a suburb then that itself can create a food desert. In the city, you live closer.

[@aured1310]

@@abnerruiz4011 Yes, I live in one.

[@NeilCWCampbell]

@@aured1310 where has it said that 'they forcing businesses to set up shops in low income areas?' Given that by your own admission you yourself already live in a poor district that is a 'food desert ' how are they solving/not solving that problem now?

[@JoaoSantos-ur1gg]

I didn't know businesses only sold to rich people.

[@dollylove3430]

I think Stalin tried this already.

[@kevinpatrickcarey3741]

Hitler also and each time lead to a very long and bloody war

[@moodinfinite]

Turning schools into neighborhood centers in the evening is a no brainer and honestly should be implemented everywhere. High school gyms, pools, and tracks should be open to the public!

[@bobbyc1120]

Come to think of it, there's a redundancy in having a school *and* a library, especially when the vast majority of high schoolers can't drive in America or don't own a car. What if they could stay after school and volunteer at the library? Plus, it would save money because we'd need less roads and less buildings.

[@maxwellschneiter]

Great idea, let's allow homeless people and drug addicts to camp out in the local schools, what could possibly go wrong?

[@mishswb4950]

Next time you try visit you friend in another city... jokes on you as its beyond 15 flipping minutes

[@genkiferal7178]

any public building should be dual and triple use.

[@blazeraz7666]

@@mishswb4950 you can take a phreaking train mate

[@Susan-kd3rv]

He was m19 movement.

[@socksumi]

It comes down to what is offered as theory vs what ends up in practice. That is where risk and freedom issues come into play since governments are notoriously bad at doing most things and frequently squashes basic freedoms in the process. It happens whenever you have high levels of central planning which is a euphemism for creeping socialism and eventually communism

[@1supertec]

If these people think that society will just lay down and accept this prison without walls then I guess they are just as disconnected from the real world as we think they are 🤔.

[@niconicoo5661]

China let it happen and you wouöd wobder how many stupid people youre surounded by

[@1supertec]

@@niconicoo5661 china is a communist dictatorship with no freedom of speech and that's a long way off Oxford that is full of self entitled rich people with to much money and to much to say 🤞

[@niconicoo5661]

@@1supertec yeah but china was not always like that was it ? It starts slowly and one day you wake up in the middle of it and you still dont understand what happend

[@kevinpatrickcarey3741]

yah even China rised up eventually.

[@JD43232]

Well almost the entire dumb world accepted the jabs and accepted lockdowns for something that has never been isolated while they made people do fake tests. People accepted all of that. The majority of humans today are clueless idiots that almost deserve whats coming to them........ only words i can put it into

[@codelessunlimited7701]

The 15 minute city is the 15 minute of everybody got a prison. The 15 Minute Prison City.

[@kevinpatrickcarey3741]

I can see Canada where I live embracing this with open arms....Treasondeau wants China like restrictions here

[@xapa5509]

Please caption kurdish please 😭

[@Julio-xy4lx]

por que no se encarcela el ?

[@whyme7996]

It is slave encampments and penalties.

[@wullewagner1840]

No.

[@robbyseager9536]

Has anyone found a video of M. Moreno presenting his idea in French? I'd love to see.

[@lonalxaia]

His idea is garbage.

[@kevinpatrickcarey3741]

@@lonalxaia hope he walks into an 18 wheeler

[@finndo]

industrial zones at

[@bobbyc1120]

In an ideal society, people should have cars in case they want to go to faraway places. But they shouldn't have to use them as a prerequisite for leaving their house. It makes it feel like you're traveling from an isolated home to a specific point and back, as opposed to traveling through a living city where all the space has something to offer.

[@timeforchange3786]

Yep, they sound similar to Jim Jones commune, Germany Ghettos and work camps. People will be assigned jobs and live in the neighborhoods that produce those products/services.

[@timeforchange3786]

@@zUJ7EjVD 10% will drive. The same 10% that eat meat. They are call elites.

[@kevinpatrickcarey3741]

@@bobbyc1120 well the reality is some cities are very crime ridden and walking everywhere will get you mugged or murdered? ever think of that. Think people living in dangerous neighboorhoods want to walk everywhere LOL LLOL

[@bobbyc1120]

@@kevinpatrickcarey3741 More people are killed each year by car crashes than by homicide, and it's not even close. Plus, walking adds years to your life. Most Americans die of heart disease, not murder. Finally, I've never been robbed in my life, but I have spent thousands on car-related expenses, including speeding and parking tickets. I live in Philadelphia, a place with a reputation for being dangerous. But I feel much safer here than I did driving on the highway in Miami, where I grew up.

[@espada9]

YOU are the carbon they want to reduce!

[@nobody6019]

not so practical

[@Think_Inc]

Really?

[@fl260]

I watched this video, then went to my friend to talk about it, but they all called me conspiracy theorist and they didn't want to hear a word about it. I told them it was a TED video but they didn't believe me, telling me this was probably black propaganda from a far-right channel that looked like TED but wasn't really TED. So I sent them the link directly and now 5 out of 6 won't talk to me anymore, calling me a QANON crazy conspiracy theorist lunatic. How can I share this information with my friends without this happening to me? How have we gotten there?

[@timeforchange3786]

They have been programed to not listen to anything not pushed by the government. Many people will not understand what is happening until it is too late. Another step into 1984 I am afraid.

[@thebrunetteinroom7]

Maybe stop telling your friends that celebrities are all robots and lizards trapped underground…crazy talk

[@jessbarnes8521]

Show them what’s happening in Oxford

[@lonalxaia]

You can't save everyone. They are gonna have to learn the hard way.

[@fl260]

@@lonalxaia Yeah I guess. More of them have blocked me for sharing this video now. Because I think this is a good idea, they now call me a right-wing Trump lover... and their reasoning is the following: Only a right-wing fascist would use a vague notion like the climate to take your freedoms away from you and keep you in your house like you're in a jail. I think they don't really love nature, as they are not willing to sacrifice their personal freedom to save the planet.

[@nickshenton7738]

I don’t understand how they think So Many people will work within 15 minutes walk of there house

[@ianhomerpura8937]

No, you're wrong. You can still work anywhere you want, but having a railway and bus station, groceries, schools, restaurants, clinics, and other shops within a 15 minute walk is normal in the rest of the world. It's only Americans and Canadians so obsessed with cars they cannot think of a world without needing them. You paranoid people.

[@nickshenton7738]

@@ianhomerpura8937 I’m not American or Canadian I live in England.

[@robotron17]

Brought to you by the same people who brought you the "pandemic".

[@dees3003]

We already have such cities. Thank you but no thank you

[@leeannelucy339]

Funny how this vision was pre covid!! Then we got a taste of the tiers/zones/districts (it sounds more hunger games than a positive move)

[@kevinpatrickcarey3741]

hope it leads to conflict like in the movie

[@janepavlis22]

Engineered city? No thanks.

[@solidwater4020]

4 problems I instantly see: 1. no one want to live near a noisy factory, 2. hospitals require huge capital investments for surgery and complicated procedures (same for any factory), thus require centralization, (maybe could make them so you use 1 big one only in really bad cases which would be minority and mb works.) 3. winter and bikes are not a nice experience, if its walking distance its alright. 4. you would need to fix housing cost problem so that you can live next to work place.

[@tiavor]

1. doesn't apply here, noisy factories would be outside the 15 min walk distance. 2. doesn't apply here, hospitals wouldn't need to be within the 15 min walk distance 3. yes, but then you'd just need a good winter cleaning team. 4. that is the biggest problem here. the rent in such an area would be unbearable unless it's really just a small town/community. maybe if it looks like this everywhere then it wouldn't be as much of a problem.

[@landenhansen6372]

#3 try checking out the channel Not Just Bikes video that premiered just an hour ago

[@tommeier6781]

This concept was created for cuties like Paris where most economic activity takes place in the service sector. There are no factories in a traditional sense in Paris.

[@AssBlasster]

@@landenhansen6372 Exactly. If the paths are plowed, I will gladly bike in winter with appropriate clothing.

[@timeforchange3786]

When the government is in control of health care expensive surgeries will be a thing of the past. They will have emergency centers. Hospitals will be for the elite.

[@NeroWantsFire]

Get your crowbars guys and gals, we're about to smell the ashes...

[@angie.veitch]

Does the pulse & breath of the city harmonize with the hearts & souls of its dancers???

[@avipinckney]

Yeah, if you don’t mind paying large fines then you are freeee! So in other words rich.

[@JanKowalski-vj9py]

Usually there's no public areas with live ochestra to dance.

[@noisemaker0129]

Isn't this just Jane Jacobs?

[@chip1pan]

Divide and conquer

[@JadeTrading]

You’re not reading this comment by mistake. 2021 is your year to shine.

[@dmdmorg]

Fotrot Oscar pinko.

[@samdeur]

If you don’t address the concerns that people have like the good points SusanAllen wrote bellow..this vid is 50% of the story.

[@LaserBread]

The the bullshit from the bullshit industry?

[@Julio-xy4lx]

osea por Gusto de ese infeliz o podremos or a la playa ríos y compartir en familia?

[@tinribz]

Sounds great till you find out you get fined for leaving your 'quarter'. They are literally doing this in the UK claiming it's for 'climate reasons'.

[@NeilCWCampbell]

Where do you find this out? Are you making things up!

[@ticktockbam]

@@NeilCWCampbell No, you can literally search it up on KZbin.

[@NeilCWCampbell]

@@ticktockbam no you can't..

[@ole1111]

Clean air zone Manchester that's operating fees and fines, starting with comercial vehicles which is currently under review due to massive push back (probably waiting for a better oppurtunity to foist it upon us). There's hundreds, if not thousands of cameras that have gone up around the city and way beyond to create a ring to monitor traffic in and out. Yet there's cameras within the limits several times over, not on roads that directly lead in or out...I wonder why? Even Ray Charles with a bag over his head could see where this is going!

[@NeilCWCampbell]

@@ole1111 which is??

[@CopperBased]

It's a prison by another name.

[@emiliopenayo4738]

No it isn't.

[@CopperBased]

@@emiliopenayo4738 if you can't freely move around in it, then it's a prison. You should be ashamed of yourself.

[@wullewagner1840]

@@CopperBased Who said you can't move free around?

[@CopperBased]

@@wullewagner1840 The Oxford England city council.

[@wullewagner1840]

@@CopperBased They never said that. You can move freely in the entire city, but car traffic can't (at certain times a day).

[@NSDaishi]

I don't think this idea is even possible because businesses need a lot of traffic, not just customers that are 15 minutes away. That is why businesses fight for space next to a freeway.

[@momilli5096]

...and if the people just continue to life their life and we will get a fine on top of a fine on top of all the fines... what the Government will do... lock up everybody?

[@ticktockbam]

I've read that they'll most likely implement this mainly with government buildings, since businesses won't get benefited as much.

[@stevee2979]

Why do15 minute cities, require a level of surveillance and coercion if they are so good. And if everything is not available within the 15 min city, what do people do ? It sounds a bit like the hunger games, where the oppressed are kept in clusters, better to be controlled.

[@markuspatzer8658]

Does this concept means anyone gets within the city without car in 15 minutes? Or does that means I have only 15 minutes from my home buying food, go to pharamcia or to the doc and back to my home within 15 minutes? What will happen when I need longer paing for expensive permits? What when I need a braoder radius for shopping the whole day or when I going out of the 15 minutes radius - doing travel? What then will happen to us?

[@markuspatzer8658]

@@winnie2481 Hi ! Where do you know that when my 100 days permit is over, that they will blocking access to my money in the Digital Wallet?

[@markuspatzer8658]

Blocking the whole access to my money on my Digital Wallet when I be over 100 days?

[@markuspatzer8658]

@@winnie2481 They take the fine from my Digital Wallet or the whole money? I wonder that there are so many people who are not zionists work for the wef. The so called idea of zionism, they now controlling 185 countries around the globe, is radical fascism.

[@markuspatzer8658]

@@winnie2481 Yes we people must stop this, usa has a strong Constiution we in europe not, is that so sad. Better you have 2-3 pre loaded payment wallets on your phone to buying stuff when your Digital Wallet is blocked. Then next coming social credit system and carbon foootprint: you should not use too much electricity, pc- computer....whatsoever ...your room should not be too warm in the winter, products as a service= leasing (?) , real estate prices will ramp up, people with low salary will not be able to rent rooms in 15 minute cities...but enough people on the world working for the fascisting ideas of wef, I hope majority of us folks will wake up.And not forget they dominate politic in 185 countries, King Charles in UK nominates the new prime minister without need voting, that's their understanding of democrazy. WEF and their followers of billionaire organizations (politic, media, hollywood,pharma...) they are not the majority compare to the world population, but controlling 185 countries in the world that's disgusting.

[@markuspatzer8658]

@@winnie2481 Hi again ! Yes I understand you. I use my visa card most of time and little bit cash. I think with all these restrictions, they will reduce paying with cash in supermarket or shops like not more than $200/ Euro. I never trust these zionist warmongers with everything. We have seen what the predecessor H. Kissinger did. They advise presidents and have immunity, cause wars, poverty, hundreds of people in the world, all kinds of things. Voting machines set up internationally, voting has become pointless, as you can see in politics when new ministers are elected or high positions, the people's vote is no longer needed. The whole thing is really sick. Of course, many people in the world have woken up, but no one is stopping it. I do no tknow their digital wallet concept, do you can have multiple cards connected with it and 2-3 bank accounts or 1 human = 1 bank acount worldwide ? In the moment on digital wallet apps you can add multiple cards and bank accounts. Correct me if I wrong, in some us states they have the universal income it is $2000 a month we people in europe not get that sum. In europe there is social assistance from the state for the unemployed about 500€, that is scarce. But I don't think the wef wants to destroy capitalism, because then everything would collapse. I wish all people here healthy and happy new year 2023 !

[@clutch_ops3773]

I read the article kindlab thanks for that it was great 👍

[@patrickwoodrum500]

They are trying to unionize communities.

[@paulb9769]

Sadly cities are expensive, overpopulated and crime ridden.

[@kevinpatrickcarey3741]

yah these 15 minute ghettos keep ignoring the crime aspect like its magically going away

[@linktotq7431]

I have to travel from Dundee to Glasgow to see my daughter a few times a week I wonder how that's going to work out.

[@sterlingarcher2366]

Don't worry it will first not be a problem. Then you will be expected to have one a few trips in a period of time... then you will be given an allowance... then by this time if you reject it... you are a climate terrorist..

[@sterlingarcher2366]

Obviously I am having fun with this. But it is something to consider that might be forced.

[@linktotq7431]

@@sterlingarcher2366 It's definitely on the cards my friend.

[@JoaoSantos-ur1gg]

You drive there? You take a train or a bus? Damn, if you're this naive no wonder your ex got a divorce.

[@oscarosullivan4513]

@FlyingMonkies325 Well said

[@444haluk]

Hated the accent, loved the idea.

[@xbluebells]

I found his accent quite charming. You must not live in Europe where they are use to accents.

[@dkt6408]

why hate?

[@robertskitch]

It's not as if there aren't subtitles?

[@ejeje641]

The fight is here and they are trying to kill all the alphas already

[@jennycoffey1443]

All this upgrading and now one task is so complicated to be the whole at the beginning step that it takes all DAT a couple of days to arrange one appointment or service... It amounts to having to be every professional yourself.

[@Zeetana1]

This all means less freedom, more prisons for all, more no-go zones. I LOATHE your vision! People like this should be the first to save the planet by reducing their carbon fir good...

[@mrp9165]

Totally agree with you. I bet people get fined if outside of their 15 minute zone. Should be called a '15 minute neighbourhood prison'.

[@firstLast-sn3me]

LOL. Can you imagine it. A girl friend living more than 15 minutes walk away would be a long distance relationship, where you could only meet 100 days a year.* (* Apparently the idea is to enforce the 15 minute city with fines if you breach the 15 minute limit more than 100 days a year.)

[@genkiferal7178]

these people are like those Bible-thumpers who scream and yell about YOUR sins, yet never mention their own. They are a bit like the Ted Haggards of the world.

[@firstLast-sn3me]

@@anfieldroad7864 >Just spouting random buzzwords and slippery slope nonsense. Please explain which "random Buzzwords" or which "Slippery slope" you are referring to.

[@lorenioooooas]

@sherryhodges3773 Even if their intentions were good. Lots of dictators HAD good intentions. They believed they were the only ones who could save their country or blah blah blah they still became evil dictators. And even if the intentions are initially all positive, things always change.

[@nikkilo0who460]

I mean, we all just gunna sit here and pretend that the planet isn’t turning into a real life Hunger Games Situation over the course of like 3 years?!😅😅 No more locked doors….

[@NeilCWCampbell]

We would require evidence otherwise we just wasting our energy reacting to pointless things

[@fleshbag7754]

@@NeilCWCampbell look around some time...

[@NeilCWCampbell]

@@fleshbag7754 I am. But any actual evidence lad 😂🤣🤣

[@alicethelolita]

La prova del 9 sarà: come, quando e quando si potrà lasciare o allontanarsi da questo 'Gan Eden' nominato 'Città da 15 minuti'..? La cosa può avere senso come funzione, non come impostazione. Qualunque essere umano sano di mente impazzirebbe dopo una settimana, in un contesto del genere. Questo approccio pone come assunto l'olismo della personalità, delle potenzialità, e le più sane esigenze umane quali ininfluenti, a vantaggio di un modello di umano-cittadino-meccanismo. Certo, se fosse concessa anche l'intera modalità 'oubox' allora non avrei praticamente nulla di seriamente critico da dire, anzi... Il fatto è che tutto ciò nei prossimi due decenni circa, sarà tranquillamente 'compensato' con l'implemento sempre più quotidiano, naturale e necessario di paradigmi quali Realtà virtuale, realtà aumentata, eskin, metaverso, e in generale ciò che permette la vita "più vera" nella virtualità che non nella fattualità classica come l'abbiamo sempre conosciuta; questo sicuramente è un paradigma che assumerà connotati sempre più antropologi e impattanti, sinché non ci sarà più reale gap tra 'vita x' e 'vita y', tra avatar e persona, tra simulazione e non-simulazione... (in fondo, non siamo sempre in una simulazione..? Dall'inizio dei tempi e le teorie scientifiche moderne fanno emergere questa condizione, che sicuramente è autentica; anche se la persona media non sa interpretarla nella maniera corretta e sostanziale, pensando di vivere in una prigione simulata; quando in realtà ciò che noi viviamo è semplicemente un esperienza "parziale e/o superficiale", in cui commettiamo l'errore di ritenerla assoluta e autoreferenziale: è proprio questa convinzione la Matrix, non la struttura della Realtà, comunque essa si disponga 😋😺)! Detto ciò, posta così.. tra Città dai 15 minuti ad autentica serra, spazio alla WWF, ghetto, Gan Eden biblico, avamposto da MMORPG, città dei Lego, The Truman Show, ecc... passa al massimo 1 minuto.. ! 😃😜

[@matthewthomas7824]

Concentration camps the first 15 minute city

[@juliusfucik4011]

All fun and games, but if my government enforces this, I will resist. It is time we make small government mandatory by law.

[@kevinpatrickcarey3741]

ill be praying for a war and even if im in my 60s when this happens ill be taking up arms

[@NeilCWCampbell]

Really how much resisting did you do on congestion zone in London? How much are you willing to pay to give other people their cars that you seem to believe some right

[@themostsecretscience6409]

This doesn't work in the western part of the United States. Its impossible.

[@lonalxaia]

@sherry hodgesthis scheme shouldn't even be thought of at all.

[@Misia52]

That’s why I will move There 🎉👍 Finally wild & free🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@mishswb4950]

THIS DOESNT WORK FULL STOP. But it is BEING ENFORCED on us because of WEF delusions. Caps because of the dire costs to humanity freedom

[@codelessunlimited7701]

This kind of idea should be a crime.

[@kevinpatrickcarey3741]

going to start a war ! cant wait!

[@TheRJRabbit23]

Rapid Public Transportation that runs 24/7 every 15 minutes

[@michaelwalker1964]

I cant believe it's got 2000 likes thiers your problem

[@paulapcay]

Insane ideas! Human Resources are not a available for this kind of life prison!

[@nevergiveupferenczi1121]

100%

[@freddybell8328]

You two are both unintelligent. It's a more compact city therefore it uses less resources.

[@ianhomerpura8937]

Prison? Learn to walk, you lazy person.

[@paulapcay]

@@ianhomerpura8937? I live in Berlin and have no car... What do you mean? Inform yourself, it's about control.

[@user-fz6wm9hz2f]

People are not a resource, but those who plan to implement these ideas see us that way.

[@affintlewoodlewix]

Lunatic idea like just about everything on TED. But unfortunately already under implementation by the usual suspects

[@LamajMusic]

It's a fact now

[@bbt305]

What?

[@heathercook6376]

Prisons

[@timeforchange3786]

Work camps

[@positivevibesrfc]

It's a prison life under these rules. F them.

[@cjcorallo5775]

Yes, sounds great that everything is so close that you'll never need to go far. Until you want to, and it will be forbidden.

[@lw1zfog]

do you even ‘Hunger Games’ dude ??!?!?!?

[@karikling6751]

This is patently false. Nobody in urbanism is advocating for telling you where you can or can't go.

[@cjcorallo5775]

@@karikling6751 Berlin wall??.....

[@LaserBread]

@@cjcorallo5775 Eiffel Tower??.....

[@cjcorallo5775]

@@LaserBread yea that's right, the Eiffel tower was also a fortified wall that separated friends and family based on bullshit communist policy. How could I forget??

[@denishubner1191]

Ah, i get it. We are just allowed to move within a 15 minute circle, while you are allowed to fly around the planet in a jet. Well... No...

[@xapa5509]

Please caption kurdish

[@loz5688]

Two legs good, four wheels bad!

[@LiviuRo1]

*is it an english version of this video also?*

[@xbluebells]

It was in English. Could you not understand it? Just hit the cc button and there are English subtitles if you are having problems.

[@dkt6408]

have you tried speaking another language than your own? Its hard, don't be rude, if you can't understand the video use subtitles.

[@JustStickAThumbInIt]

A whole lot of people in this comment section who are willing to give away their freedoms because somebody said it's good for them.

[@LaserBread]

Thanks, big oil, but nobody asked for your opinion.

[@JustStickAThumbInIt]

@@LaserBread you want to live in a 15 minute city, knock yourself out but I say no thank you. Not big oil, just an individual who wants to maintain his freedom.

[@wullewagner1840]

@@JustStickAThumbInItFreedom IS NOT bring dependent on cars.

[@JustStickAThumbInIt]

@@wullewagner1840 freedom is living where you see fit. If you want to live in dense area, go right ahead but it is not the governments job or duty to coerce you into living where they think is most suitable.

[@wullewagner1840]

@@JustStickAThumbInIt Ok but no one forces you into living in such a city

[@nickbagnall]

What sounds like utopia can quickly become dystopia, and is in the UK.

[@latinochrome]

Is the question of I can’t make it because I live in Zone 9 or something come into play? Or…we have to go because we already have 10 minutes outside. This will become conspiracy theories because it sure sounds that way. The answer is no, no “golden rule” or proximities. The Island movie comes already to mind or The Running Man. Saving time? Who’s time?

[@barebeautyessentials3323]

We need better urban planning for sure but not with the government over reach that would go with these smart cities

[@JanKowalski-vj9py]

"Smart city" and "X-minute" city are different concepts. "Smart city" calls for utmost electronically assisted control of everything.

[@la7418]

One thing comes to my mind - Michael Foucault -Panopticon !

[@azeemchoudhry9000]

Is he too white to be subtitled?

[@goyeyeah]

Sank you too

[@Level-up-your-life]

If you can’t see how this ends you’re blind

[@kevinpatrickcarey3741]

WAR!!!!

[@Kickey165]

*you’re 😊

[@lw1zfog]

It ends up with increased sales of superglue, aerosol paints, silly string, paint thinners, acids, flammable liquids, expanding foam, neodynium magnets, pen lasers, so on & so forth

[@organichuman]

See you in the camps.

[@Level-up-your-life]

@@Kickey165 thank you English is my second language but I’m getting better

[@HowCaseySeesIt]

I’m legally blind and can’t drive so this sounds like a dream

[@hollrknight]

how did you comment-?

[@HowCaseySeesIt]

@@hollrknight iPhones are accessible. You can use the text to speech feature or the zoom feature. I’m legally blind (not completely blind) which means I still have some usable vision. But even fully blind people use the internet.

[@NeilCWCampbell]

@@hollrknight privilege showing lad

[@sa3270]

People who promote prison cities I mean 15 minute cities should live in them and leave the rest of us the frick alone.

[@POISONSHANK1]

What's next block war.

[@HagiaFantasia]

This is a great idea. More efficient public transit needs to be in place, too many cars congest the cities. I dread the possibility getting unalived by a 4000 lb vehicle due to blindsiding. Bike lanes, monorails, parks and benches that's friendly and humane. There's so much hostile architecture in cities ( spiked steps, uncomfortable benches, sprinkler systems, police sweeps), all designed to harm the homeless, the end result not only dehumanizes the homeless but anybody who wants to sit ,to stand, to exist or occupy space in public.

[@carkawalakhatulistiwa]

😂it just soviet microdistrict

[@carkawalakhatulistiwa]

And monorel is bulshit. LRT is better

[@elliotwilliams7421]

Terrible idea. That's all it is, zero plan or evidence

[@dawnsstar5918]

Just like a little "commune", perhaps.

[@JanKowalski-vj9py]

No. Like a "concentration camp".

[@Quatermain98526]

Can't understand a thing he's saying... Moving on

[@kevintytel7870]

NOTICE

[@KrulKrulSprietSpriet]

Does he know about the Dutch? On a bike we can get pretty much anywhere in 10 minutes on a lot of our cities