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Why has the ‘15-minute city’ taken off in Paris but become a controversial idea in the UK?
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 06 Apr 2024
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Big mistake here : Calling change in Paris change in France. Paris metropolitan area is basically its own small world within France, things that happened in Paris usually don't apply, or at least don't apply the same, in France.
Living outside of Paris I can tell you we see that there is fast change there and it seems to be for the better in term of city livability. Still, this is still not much spread out into parisian suburbs which always had the worst live conditions.
In other big city, change toward '15 minutes' cities are happening much slower if at all and in towns and rural France the concept non existant.