15-Minute Suburbs

Can you sell urbanism to people who already enjoy proximity to everything?

I saw a really interesting comment on Twitter a month or two ago, in response to an article about 15-minute cities. It was basically, “Why do I need a ‘15-minute city’? I’m already 15 minutes or less from everything in the suburbs.”

I’ve been thinking about this a lot. Maybe some of the seeming bafflement over 15-minute cities—the reason that the idea do…