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Urban planners have increasingly turned to the concept of the '15-minute city', a neighborhood design in which residents can reach most daily needs, work, shops, schools, healthcare, within a 15-minute walk or bicycle ride. Proponents argue this reduces car dependency, lowers emissions, and strengthens local community ties. Critics counter that such planning can be difficult to retrofit into existing car-centric cities, may raise housing costs in newly desirable neighborhoods, and has occasionally been swept up in unrelated conspiracy theories about restricting personal movement.
Urban planners have increasingly turned to the concept of the '15-minute city', a neighborhood design in which residents can reach most daily needs, work, shops, schools, healthcare, within a 15-minute walk or bicycle ride. Proponents argue this reduces car dependency, lowers emissions, and strengthens local community ties. Critics counter that such planning can be difficult to retrofit into existing car-centric cities, may raise housing costs in newly desirable neighborhoods, and has occasionally been swept up in unrelated conspiracy theories about restricting personal movement.
- A. The 15-minute city concept faces no practical obstacles to implementation.
- B. The 15-minute city, a neighborhood design promoting local accessibility, has real benefits but also faces practical and social challenges, including susceptibility to unfounded conspiracy claims.
- C. Conspiracy theories have completely discredited the 15-minute city concept.
- D. Car-centric cities are impossible to redesign.
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Answer: (B) The 15-minute city, a neighborhood design promoting local accessibility, has real benefits but also faces practical and social challenges, including susceptibility to unfounded conspiracy claims.
The paragraph balances proponents' claims (reduced emissions, community ties) against critics' concerns (retrofitting difficulty, housing costs, conspiracy theories) — option B is the only one reflecting this full balance; the rest exaggerate one side.
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