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The 15-Minute City: Where Urban Planning Meets Conspiracy Theories

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Re: The 15-Minute City: Where Urban Planning Meets Conspiracy Theories

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It's important not to actually try to address this nonsense. The idea here not to honestly engage. It's to oppose all change on principal, and pretend it's for some reason (the theory) when it's really just a matter of (bad) personal choices.

It's the equivalent of the Chewbacca defence but for public discourse: no one can make any progress if someone just screams nonsense constantly and that suits the person screaming...

Re: The 15-Minute City: Where Urban Planning Meets Conspiracy Theories

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Mountain_Skies wrote: post #4
wussboy wrote: post #3

Maybe it’s not such a great thing that we all have an equal voice.

We're all equal, but some are more equal than others.

People are equal but that doesn't mean they're equally smart or honest.

Re: The 15-Minute City: Where Urban Planning Meets Conspiracy Theories

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In the most-detailed example of such initiatives described in the article, the steps taken in Oxford include ALPR-camera-triggered automated fines for driving on certain roadways at certain times of certain days to those "without a permit" (who is eligible for the special permits, how eligibility is determined, etc. is not discussed) and actual blocking of other streets using bollards (and heavy planters and other obstacles).

Pointing out that the authorities implementing such schemes are attempting to reduce individual freedom of movement and action is factual, not a conspiracy theory.

Re: The 15-Minute City: Where Urban Planning Meets Conspiracy Theories

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briandon wrote: post #7

In the most-detailed example of such initiatives described in the article, the steps taken in Oxford include ALPR-camera-triggered automated fines for driving on certain roadways at certain times of certain days to those "without a permit" (who is eligible for the special permits, how eligibility is determined, etc. is not discussed) and actual blocking of other streets using bollards (and heavy planters and other ob…

It's not really. There is no conspiracy about closing roads to make them into pedestrian areas. No one claims fining someone for driving through a park would be a "conspiracy"...
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