In his new book, 'The 15-Minute City,' Carlos Moreno explains how Paris has radically transformed—and how the proximity concept is growing globally.

For many, living in a city means facing tedious traffic, packed subways and imposing buildings amid the sprawl. But the increasingly popular urban planning concept known as the “15-minute city ...

The "15-minute City" is an urban planning concept where your main daily needs are a close walk, bike or transit ride from home. It could also help limit global warming, but it faces major obstacles.

Paris’s 40 square miles are served by an estimated 1,180 bakeries and 516 butcher shops, ... The 15-minute city concept offers a way out of the housing and climate crises.

Paris is using the 15-minute city as part of a broader strategy to reduce the number of cars and amount of air pollution, says François Croquette, the city's director for climate and ecology.

The historic development of cities such as London, Paris, Philadelphia and Savannah reflect the ideas of the 15-minute city that we see urbanists discussing today.

One of the most aggressive efforts has been in Paris, where before the pandemic, ... She later made the idea of a 15-minute city a centerpiece of her successful re-election campaign in 2020.

This is the growth of the 15-minute city inside of Paris. But at the same time, during COVID, the C40 Cities embraced this concept. The C40 is the global network of cities for fighting climate change.

The 15-minute city is either an urban-planning epiphany or a totalitarian nightmare, depending on whom you ask. The concept, credited to a Sorbonne University professor, promotes self-contained ...

Still, the idea of 15-minute cities received an unexpected boost from the COVID-19 pandemic. Many mayors and city councils took advantage of the lockdowns to reimagine city spaces, including by re ...

The 15-Minute City in action, in Paris. Paris En Commune. What does Moreno think about the wilful twisting of his ville du quart d’heure concept? “It does not affect me,” he stated in an email.

The idea of a 15-minute city has been around for almost a decade and was first posited in 2015 by Carlos Moreno, a French urban designer and professor at Panthéon-Sorbonne University in Paris.