Just in case you do not believe 15 minute Smart Cities are real or that they will never happen in the US……..HERE is what is already happening in the US and the cities they feel have 15 minute potential. One thing the cities on the list have in common is they are all DEMOCRAT cities. Many have been implementing UN Agenda 21 for decades (Seattle, Philadelphia, Portland, Miami just to name a couple).

Step aside, New York and Los Angeles. According to a newly published study by moveBuddha, mid-size American cities of 250,000 to 750,000 residents dominated the rankings of the top 25 future 15-minute cities in the United States, with a few large cities known for engaging in urban planning on the neighborhood level, for instance Chicago and Philadelphia, also making the cut.

The idea that residents should be able to meet their basic needs within a short walk or roll of their home was popularized by Anne Hidalgo, Mayor of Paris, early on in the Covid pandemic, and it has been met with widespread enthusiasm among urban planners and policymakers the world over, including in sprawling North America. If we are lucky, the 15-minute city might revolutionize planning of the 21st century to the same degree that Le Corbusier’s concept of the tower and car-centric radiant city did in the 20th century. Urban planners have begun to theorize on what ten-minute cities and even five-minute cities might look like as well.

https://www.theurbanist.org/2021/08/16/study-ranks-u-s-cities-by-15-minute-city-potential/?

Published Aug, 2021