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The Rise of the 15-Minute City Concept
The 15-minute city is a concept that was popularized by Carlos Moreno, an urbanist in Paris. He says cities should be designed or redesigned so that within the distance of a 15-minute walk or bike ride, people can leave the essence of what constitutes the urban experience. In Shanghai and other Chinese cities where urban planning has just demolished a lot of traditional neighborhoods, they said, hey, wait a minute, what if we took residents' needs into consideration?
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