Through public hearings, the democratic process allows citizens in Edmonton a say in decisions that affect their lives. Lawmakers say that's "frustrating."
there are no hospitals, schools, parks, places of worship in the plans I have seen for 15 minute cities in Vancouver, Canada. So don't worry you elderly and disabled people, nor you family folk....you are not included in the plan. these are to be homes for drone workers without religions, sex, family etc etc... these workers can just be plugged in to any spot and get on with the job. oh happy efficiency!!
Great comments below. I agree the major issue here is top-down decision making. We wouldn't be in the many messes we are in but for that power dynamic. Local people should have the power to determine how their homes and villages are arranged, or whether their forests are plowed, or lands are mined.
I could be wrong but in the photograph Mr Caulfield radiates a self congratulatory narcissism, which perhaps explains why he has to offer a view on just about everything even where it’s clearly outside his professional experience. Self validation writ large.
Regarding “15 Minute Cities” themselves, policy makers need to bear in mind that for some people - the disabled for example, mobility is not a “choice’, and the availability of private transport options is a necessity and not a luxury which can be removed at the stroke of a pen.
Consider that currently a disabled person needs a car to reach an out of town supermarket for a major weekly shop to gain the benefit of choice and lower prices.
There is no way on earth that food chains will invest in an equivalent major supermarket in every 15 minute area - commercially unsustainable and a tragic waste of resources- so the disabled especially will be both economically and socially disadvantaged.
How will that square with the much touted DEI policies which we are being sold by the authorities?
My overall point is that choices will need to be made and there will be losers. Mr Caulfield can have his perhaps informed opinion, but ultimately it has to be the people who are directly effected, as in this case, that have the RIGHT to comment on proposed changes which will drastically impact their lives.
The root cause of the problem is that the people making the decisions are not really considering the needs of the population, but instead catering to the people who are making money off the decisions that are reached.
People creating housing developments are wanting to capitalize on scale. That means either building on far away properties that can be bought cheaply with no infrastructure to make them livable or in ultra dense housing that makes for expensive development and congestion.
The way that they get away with it is through weaponized zoning. Historically, many people had their homes built in as part of a business. Maybe a shop or office with living quarters upstairs. Maybe they had a couple extra apartments built in as well. Many people had a home with an extra apartment over the garage or in a basement. Now, those are a relic of history. All development is restricted to large scale developers who also have plenty of money to fund elections to make sure that they are favored in all the decisions made. That doesn't include the effects of corruption.
Once living quarters are separated from where people make a living, people need transportation whether private or public. The consolidation of retail businesses has not helped in this. You get a retailer that comes into a community that buys property out where it is cheap and people need transportation to get to them. This drives the small businesses out and only makes the problems worse. You end up either out in a distant suburban development without any infrastructure or in a dense urban environment where the small businesses have been driven out. Either way, you need transportation to get to far away retail locations.
Simply saying that city planning is the solution ignores the fact that it is city planning that has created the problem.
This is such a complex issue really. Walkable cities ARE wonderful, and were the NORM for thousands of years pre industrial revolution. Some cities & bad-actors likely could abuse a walkable city, and they certainly might in future "manufactured crisis" with lockdowns... "15 minute city" as a term has been corrupted. It's just good urban design actually. Any govt can abuse lockdowns regardless of if your community is walkable.
With more wars & strife, less available to access easy fossil fuels, and more financial crisis, we're likely to see car costs + insurance + fuel prices get more and more expensive and eventually skyrocket. This is just the reality of unlimited growth on a finite planet -- no conspiracy theory there. Unless fusion is developed in record time (unlikely) or massive high-quality oil is found (also unlikely), a more expensive car-culture will become the norm. I love my truck, but we share it as a family. I don't want to spend 1/3 of my income to insurance companies + gas companies + car makers on two vehicles for my family. I'd rather spend the money other ways. And I like cars just fine in the right environment! (rural and suburban -- cars are not ideal in huge cities)
The danger of vilifying walkable cities (15 minute cities I guess) is that it politicizes a benign subject: good urban planning. Vilifying walkable towns gives power to NIMBYs stuck in the past so they can squash otherwise logical planning for walkability and biking infrastructure. The reality is many boomers think their past was normal for all of humanity -- we're living in a temporary & likely magical time of crazy cheap energy. I wish it could continue! I don't want it to change either.
I personally love rural areas and small towns in the county -- I would not live in a big city.
Our future will almost certainly be far more expensive and more limited just due to 8 billion people with many seeking a western lifestyle. This will require good urban planning for people who choose to still live in cities. More bikes, less cars. More walking, less driving.
It's good to give people options. Don't like a walkable "15 minute city"? Move to the country! :)
All of these conditioned narratives, however, are false. We humans are infinite creators. As is mother earth. The financial & insurance system is completely manipulated by the cabal to make it excessively expensive. The oil industry as well. We have plenty of oil. The cabal's agenda is antihuman. The cabal cannot stay in power when we are empowered. They are conditioning us to believe we are at fault and that there's an endless "emergency" while the cabal manipulate EVERYTHING and tell us lies about what's going on. They use positive movements -- "good urban planning" -- and warp them to serve their own agenda: control the population + depopulation.
Debt Slavery and the Carbon Credit Coup | Whitney Webb and Mark Goodwin
there are no hospitals, schools, parks, places of worship in the plans I have seen for 15 minute cities in Vancouver, Canada. So don't worry you elderly and disabled people, nor you family folk....you are not included in the plan. these are to be homes for drone workers without religions, sex, family etc etc... these workers can just be plugged in to any spot and get on with the job. oh happy efficiency!!
Great comments below. I agree the major issue here is top-down decision making. We wouldn't be in the many messes we are in but for that power dynamic. Local people should have the power to determine how their homes and villages are arranged, or whether their forests are plowed, or lands are mined.
I could be wrong but in the photograph Mr Caulfield radiates a self congratulatory narcissism, which perhaps explains why he has to offer a view on just about everything even where it’s clearly outside his professional experience. Self validation writ large.
Regarding “15 Minute Cities” themselves, policy makers need to bear in mind that for some people - the disabled for example, mobility is not a “choice’, and the availability of private transport options is a necessity and not a luxury which can be removed at the stroke of a pen.
Consider that currently a disabled person needs a car to reach an out of town supermarket for a major weekly shop to gain the benefit of choice and lower prices.
There is no way on earth that food chains will invest in an equivalent major supermarket in every 15 minute area - commercially unsustainable and a tragic waste of resources- so the disabled especially will be both economically and socially disadvantaged.
How will that square with the much touted DEI policies which we are being sold by the authorities?
My overall point is that choices will need to be made and there will be losers. Mr Caulfield can have his perhaps informed opinion, but ultimately it has to be the people who are directly effected, as in this case, that have the RIGHT to comment on proposed changes which will drastically impact their lives.
The root cause of the problem is that the people making the decisions are not really considering the needs of the population, but instead catering to the people who are making money off the decisions that are reached.
People creating housing developments are wanting to capitalize on scale. That means either building on far away properties that can be bought cheaply with no infrastructure to make them livable or in ultra dense housing that makes for expensive development and congestion.
The way that they get away with it is through weaponized zoning. Historically, many people had their homes built in as part of a business. Maybe a shop or office with living quarters upstairs. Maybe they had a couple extra apartments built in as well. Many people had a home with an extra apartment over the garage or in a basement. Now, those are a relic of history. All development is restricted to large scale developers who also have plenty of money to fund elections to make sure that they are favored in all the decisions made. That doesn't include the effects of corruption.
Once living quarters are separated from where people make a living, people need transportation whether private or public. The consolidation of retail businesses has not helped in this. You get a retailer that comes into a community that buys property out where it is cheap and people need transportation to get to them. This drives the small businesses out and only makes the problems worse. You end up either out in a distant suburban development without any infrastructure or in a dense urban environment where the small businesses have been driven out. Either way, you need transportation to get to far away retail locations.
Simply saying that city planning is the solution ignores the fact that it is city planning that has created the problem.
This is such a complex issue really. Walkable cities ARE wonderful, and were the NORM for thousands of years pre industrial revolution. Some cities & bad-actors likely could abuse a walkable city, and they certainly might in future "manufactured crisis" with lockdowns... "15 minute city" as a term has been corrupted. It's just good urban design actually. Any govt can abuse lockdowns regardless of if your community is walkable.
With more wars & strife, less available to access easy fossil fuels, and more financial crisis, we're likely to see car costs + insurance + fuel prices get more and more expensive and eventually skyrocket. This is just the reality of unlimited growth on a finite planet -- no conspiracy theory there. Unless fusion is developed in record time (unlikely) or massive high-quality oil is found (also unlikely), a more expensive car-culture will become the norm. I love my truck, but we share it as a family. I don't want to spend 1/3 of my income to insurance companies + gas companies + car makers on two vehicles for my family. I'd rather spend the money other ways. And I like cars just fine in the right environment! (rural and suburban -- cars are not ideal in huge cities)
The danger of vilifying walkable cities (15 minute cities I guess) is that it politicizes a benign subject: good urban planning. Vilifying walkable towns gives power to NIMBYs stuck in the past so they can squash otherwise logical planning for walkability and biking infrastructure. The reality is many boomers think their past was normal for all of humanity -- we're living in a temporary & likely magical time of crazy cheap energy. I wish it could continue! I don't want it to change either.
I personally love rural areas and small towns in the county -- I would not live in a big city.
Our future will almost certainly be far more expensive and more limited just due to 8 billion people with many seeking a western lifestyle. This will require good urban planning for people who choose to still live in cities. More bikes, less cars. More walking, less driving.
It's good to give people options. Don't like a walkable "15 minute city"? Move to the country! :)
All of these conditioned narratives, however, are false. We humans are infinite creators. As is mother earth. The financial & insurance system is completely manipulated by the cabal to make it excessively expensive. The oil industry as well. We have plenty of oil. The cabal's agenda is antihuman. The cabal cannot stay in power when we are empowered. They are conditioning us to believe we are at fault and that there's an endless "emergency" while the cabal manipulate EVERYTHING and tell us lies about what's going on. They use positive movements -- "good urban planning" -- and warp them to serve their own agenda: control the population + depopulation.
Debt Slavery and the Carbon Credit Coup | Whitney Webb and Mark Goodwin
https://youtu.be/_trBBunj2WI?si=FCtqHXZ_0hddh66-
I want absolutely nothing to do with this ... it's hell:
Chinese Surveillance is Totally Off the Charts - Coming Soon to a 15 Minute City Near You?
https://www.bitchute.com/video/bwcnOTGI4nd7/
Battery people…. And how does that end for the hens? With sickness, and madness; pecking each other, and even themselves to death.