- Ok, let’s do this🙄 We’ll start with an explainer covering: 🕒What is a 15-minute city 🏫What on Earth is going on with Oxford 👽Where the conspiracy theories have come from And then we’ll look at the Telegraph article 🧵 1/25
- What is a 15-min City? A term coined by urban planner Carlos Moreno, a professor at Sorbonne University, in 2016 It is how towns and cities evolved before cars were invented. People lived, worked, and socialized in their local vicinity. Everything they needed day to day was easily accessible 2/
- In fact @carlosmorenofr.bsky.social is on bluesky and well worth following
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- The idea is so straightforward - and the lack of fine grain in modern planning has been identified as a problem for ages (at least 1961 when Jane Jacobs entered the chat, @bostonoxford.bsky.social ?)Feb 1, 2026 13:02