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Real Madrid sweep aside Pachuca to lift FIFA Intercontinental Cup in Qatar

Europe’s most successful club overcome Mexico’s Pachuca 3-0 at Lusail Stadium to win FIFA’s new look global club crown.

Al Jazeera

Carlo Ancelotti breaks Real Madrid trophy record as Pachuca brushed aside in Intercontinental Cup final

A 15th major trophy across his two spells in charge makes the Italian the most decorated coach in Los Blancos history

Evening Standard

Where In The World Is Closest To Becoming A '15-minute City'?

Paris and Milan are among the cities closest to reaching the urban planning goal of being a "15-minute city," while car-dependent metropolises in the United States and elsewhere lag behind, a worldwide analysis said Monday.

International Business Times

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Why has the ‘15-minute city’ taken off in Paris but become a controversial idea in the UK?

Urbanist Carlos Moreno on how his concept is transforming French life and what is hindering change across the Channel

The Guardian - UK

Ministers prioritised driving in England partly due to conspiracy theories

Exclusive: Documents show shift in transport policy influenced by unfounded fears about loss of freedom of movement in ‘15-minute cities’

The Guardian - UK

If Taylor Swift is living in Kansas City, here's what locals say she should know

Even if you don't know burnt ends from a short end, here's a (brief!) introduction for Taylor Swift and the rest of the world to understanding Kansas City and what makes it so enchanting.

WEKU

The 15-minute city is a popular planning approach, but relies on ableist assumptions

The 15-minute city is a popular urban planning concept that promotes people living close to essential services, and encourages the use of walking and biking. Public transit is sometimes included in the transport mix, preferred to automobiles, which are largely absent.

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Why health and wellbeing should be at centre of urban planning

Scientists are examining how building and use of infrastructure relates to the burden of illness

The Guardian - UK

It's a global climate solution — if it can get past conspiracy theories and NIMBYs

The "15-minute city" is an urban planning concept that aims to increase quality of life and reduce planet-heating pollution. But it faces obstacles, including conspiracy theories.

WEKU

‘This is political expediency’: how the Tories turned on 15-minute cities

Party appears to have embraced conspiracy theory that the greener, healthier, more sustainable way of life is a ‘sinister’ attack on freedom

The Guardian - UK

People working on climate solutions are facing a big obstacle: conspiracy theories

To talk about the current state of climate disinformation, we checked in with three NPR reporters who have reported on climate, disinformation and the media.

WEKU

The Welsh town that wants to become a '15 minute city’

Bridgend doesn't actually want to become a city - the term, also known as 20-minute neighbourhoods - refers to the concept where people have everything they need within a 15 minute walk or bike ride of their home

Wales Online

Cache is king when it comes to designing the gaming CPUs of the next 20 years

Facing a power wall and the limit of physics, chip makers are in a constant battle to reengineer and re-evaluate ways to build a better CPU.

PC Gamer

We're on the brink of the biggest changes to computing's DNA and it's not just quantum that's coming

We're not at the tipping point yet, however. The hardware is still nascent and "the thing that we haven't cracked yet is the software."

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Forget the conspiracies, 15-minute cities will improve our mental health and wellbeing

The idea of the 15-minute city is appealing in its simplicity – it puts people and the environment at the centre of urban planning.

The Conversation

Forget the conspiracies, 15-minute cities will free us to improve our mental health and wellbeing

The idea of the 15-minute city, according to its originator Carlos Moreno, is that people are no more than a 15-minute walk or bike ride away from all the services they need to live, learn and thrive.

Evening Standard

What is a 15-minute city? How the urban-planning idea is tangled in conspiracy

Conspiracy theorists are falsely claiming that 15-minute cities would restrict residents to their neighbourhoods

The Conversation

15-minute cities: how to separate the reality from the conspiracy theory

Conspiracy theories aren’t a new thing, and for as long as they’ve been around they’ve ranged from the benign to the absurd. From the six moon landings being faked to the Earth being flat, or our ruling class being lizards, we’ve all probably come across them in one form or…

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The Guardian - UK

In praise of the ‘15-minute city’ – the mundane planning theory terrifying conspiracists

The frightening prospect of greener, people-friendly streets has sent the online right – and Tory MPs – into a tailspin, says Guardian architecture critic Oliver Wainwright

The Guardian - US

Is the tiny little neighborhood the city of the future?

Why the hyper-local ‘15-minute city’ is gaining ground in urban planning circles

Reason

The International Idiocy of the 15-Minute City

Planners and politicians from Saudi Arabia to Scotland want to transform interconnected cities into isolated "urban villages" no one ever needs to leave.

WEKU

The weird, wild and wonderful stories you might have missed this year

As we look back on 2022, we wanted to share a few of our favorite moments of joy from the year to bring a bit of hope, whimsy and humor to the end of the year.

The Guardian - UK

‘It’s a beautiful thing’: how one Paris district rediscovered conviviality

It started with an organised ‘bonjour’. Now the ‘republic of good neighbours’ say they want to reclaim the streets

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