Epoch Times - Is Moving People Into 15-minute Cities A Bright Idea?  #californiainsider #15minutecity
Aired: 2023-10-23
Duration: 00:51

[00:00:00]  The concept of the 15-minute city, which I thought when I first heard about it was some kind of conspiracy theory, but no, they're serious about this.
[00:00:07]  The ideal is you can do everything you need to do in your life within a 15-minute walk.
[00:00:12]  You can work, you can recreate, you can go to the restaurant, you can go to the grocery store, everything within 15 minutes.
[00:00:18]  But what's really interesting is that happened organically in Hungary because after World War II, the housing stock in Hungary was wiped out by the war.
[00:00:26]  So they came in and they built this high density in the cities and they moved the people in.
[00:00:29]  And over time, it was too harsh on the human spirit.
[00:00:32]  It came to be known as brutalism.
[00:00:34]  It does something to you.
[00:00:35]  It makes you lose confidence.
[00:00:37]  Your world becomes much smaller.
[00:00:39]  You have a low self-image.
[00:00:40]  And now when you go to Hungary, the remnants of this high density is where only the very, very poor people live.
[00:00:46]  And they're trying to move people back out into the villages and rebuild into the villages.