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The 15-Minute City, by Emmy Griffin – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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This concept is coming to a community near you. What is it?

Fifteen-minute cities, or FMCs, are the latest fetish of the leftist elite, though in a way we can understand the appeal. The infrastructure planners see this innovation as a way to recreate the old-timey neighborhood where everyone knew their neighbors and everything they needed was within walking distance.

Naturally, this means an FMC is only going to be about a mile and a half wide. The 15 minutes is figured by the distance it takes to walk from one side of town to the other. This idea was the brainchild of Carlos Moreno, a professor of business working in Paris, France. He started developing this idea in 2010, and many places around the globe latched on to it as a way to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. It would be a reset of sorts whereby communities could reorganize and become less fast-paced than the typical urban sprawl. …

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