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The 15-minute City

The 15-minute City

Thursday, 22 October 2020 | By TED

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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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