15-minute city

English

Etymology

Coined by Colombian-French urbanist Carlos Moreno.

Noun

15-minute city (plural 15-minute cities)

1. (urban studies) A city in which most daily necessities and services are located within an easily reachable 15-minute walk or bike ride from any point.
   • 2022, Zaheer Allam et al., editors, Resilient and Sustainable Cities: Research, Policy and Practice, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 41:

     Notable examples include Paris and its “Ville du quart d'heure,” a 15-minute city based on decentralized, mini-hubs where everything one is likely to need is within a 15-minute walk or bike ride.

   • 2023 February 16, Oliver Wainwright, “In praise of the ‘15-minute city’ – the mundane planning theory terrifying conspiracists”, in The Guardian‎^[1], →ISSN:

     The 15-minute city, he suggested, was a “dystopian plan”, heralding “a surveillance culture that would make Pyongyang envious”.

   • 2023 March 28, Tiffany Hsu, “He Wanted to Unclog Cities. Now He’s ‘Public Enemy No. 1.’”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN:

     On Feb. 18, when an estimated 2,000 demonstrators converged at a protest in Oxford, some carried signs claiming that 15-minute cities would become “ghettos” created by the World Economic Forum as a form of “tyrannical control.”

Translations

Translations

• French: ville du quart d’heure f

Further reading

• 15-minute city on Wikipedia.Wikipedia