Armageddon wrote:There won't be a crises. It doesn't take much gas to walk or bike to your local soup kitchen.
Fascinating to read this post from 2009, just last night I was reading about those 15 minute control grid cities they are rolling out in the UK and that are being promoted for two of our largest cities here. Basically you will be restricted to living in your local area and penalized, fined, if you travel outside of it. Quite simple to police since there are more and more surveillance cameras popping up every month with license plate recognition. And everyone carries a smart phone, and they all leave location tracking on.
The test case for this was clearly the pandemic lockdowns, the extent of travel allowed within cities then was almost identical and people were encouraged to use an app to "check in" to places of business, Contact Tracing was the reason promoted. Yes, it's all playing out, and all perfectly logical too in the light of Peak Oil's consequences for personal travel. I think many millions in the world's cities live this way already, those that don't own cars, the poor and downtrodden. Certainly Billions in the 3rd world live this way in cities. I don't have a problem with it either, since I don't live in a city lol lol
1. Introduction
While the advent of cars was celebrated for the numerous possibilities it brought in terms of mobility, trade and social class association, it has had numerous documented negative and severe impacts on the socio-economic fabric. In cities, cars changed the dynamics of urban planning, opening doors for linear and perpendicular city grids and the devastating consequences of urban sprawl [1]...
...The emergence of this pandemic exposed the vulnerability of cities in their current establishment and the need for a radical re-thinking, where innovative measures need to be tailored to ensure that urban residents are able to cope and continue with their basic activities, including cultural ones, to ensure that cities remain both resilient and livable in the short and long terms...
...In view of this background, we propose to study a conceptual approach that has captured the attention of many politicians around the world: the “15-Minute City”, as imagined by the first author, Carlos Moreno, the implementation of which was accelerated during the COVID-19 pandemic.
https://www.mdpi.com/2624-6511/4/1/6/htm
Ipswich aims to become 'UK's first 15-minute' townhttps://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-suffolk-56406943