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15-Minute Cities

The Climate Denier's Playbook

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The Impracticality of the 15 Minute City

The car has become a symbol of the low density class war between the metropolitan overclass and the mostly suburban, multi-racial working class in Western democracies. You can have cars in a 15 minute city. All the 15 minute city does is add amenities. It adds public transportation sometimes to make sure that you can get to the stuff that's closer to you. This is basically the argument that you hear that like rich white libs want to take away your car,. but real working class people will only be hurt by this. Yes. The first one is that it conflates a 15 minuteCity with the idea of banning cars from the pedestrian village. Nothing in the 15minute city framework bans

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