a 15 minute city in Paris is still in Paris. within an hour by public transport, you have Paris’ full scale. the denser the 15 minute city, the more scale you have in 15 minutes. a dense microcity has significant scale, and, like Paris, has the scale of its full metro area within an hour.

portraying the movement towards dense, mixed-use districts and the agglomeration effects of large-scale urbanism as antithetical strikes me as mistaken and counterproductive.