![]() Limiting cars and promoting pedestrian or bike access is framed as a slippery slope to government-run, open-air prisons. "Cities around the world - mayors, politicians - started talking about this very old, normal concept of why do we have to drive to everything? Why can't we have more choices and more freedom to choose rather than just having only one choice: The car," Toderian says.Īnger at the 15-minute city concept has spilled from the internet to protests in several cities. For her, pedestrian and cycle-centred design was the future. ![]() ![]() The idea has been called many things, like "complete communities", "mixed-use communities", "the city of short distances", the slightly different "20-minute neighbourhood" or as Toderian, as chief planner of Vancouver, used to call it "the power of nearness".īut the 15-minute city really came to global prominence when Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo made it a big part of her 2020 re-election campaign. "Melbourne was one of the world's originators of the idea of applying time to our neighbourhoods – the amount of time it takes for us to get to the thing that we need or want every day," Toderian points out, something the city continues to embrace. ![]() Many cities have taken up the idea - or a variation of the idea - in recent years. ![]()
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