@@therealcportugal you follow Jordan Peterson. According to his ideology, you should have taken he vax because doctors are more competent than you. Clean your room.
This is insane, 99.9% of cities in American require you to depend on owning a vehicle, and one community is giving the option to not have to depend on a car. More freedom of choice is not a bad thing.
@@wes6863 Bro that is literally orwellian. People were living in orwellian societies before the invention of cars, don't you know that? This is all clearly just a ploy by big gubment to take your money and give you nothing.
@@abel4776”15 minute cities” is literally a modern name for dense neighbourhoods. Countless people have lived in dense neighbourhoods for generations and the world continues to exist.
This is all about control. You will own nothing and be happy. NO MORE driving out to the mountains, to "get away". ANYONE who has been without a vehicle knows the pain of this. If people actually go for these cities, without a fight, they are absolutely insane.
I was just posting that. Don't like the prices at the store? Tough. Don't like the price of the e-bike repair? Move. It's like going to a movie theater to live. Can't wait until they set up fences and keep people trapped inside.
@@ExecutiveAutomotiveSociety it just seems like a strange concern. You bring up the difficulty of living without a car, when the point of this neighborhood is to try to whittle away that difficulty. You gotta start somewhere, I would say that if I had to live car free in somewhere like Phoenix, I may very well prefer a housing development like this to some other apartment complex with a ton of parking. Perhaps it will cause a decent increase in ridership for the light rail/bus lines, leading to more expansion and ease of living without a car
Oh my, this is all I ever needed, more restrictions to life and more control in the hands of the big companies, let’s not forget, an easy way to scan our faces too!
Good thing is you should write a book. Bad thing is you need to travel the world more. Or even your own country. Dense neighbourhoods exist literally everywhere.
@@SteveSunny How you are far more free to go where you want to go when you want to go, rather that than a train where you can go and when you can is dictated for you.
What if the car breaks down? What if you get a DUI/lose your license? What if you can't afford a car? What if you get in a crash and you are no longer able to drive? There's so many downsides to car ownership that people don't think of. If you want the freedom to not rely on public transit that's up to you and your price to pay but you shouldn't be able to take away other people's freedom of choice to live in smaller more dense communities apt for public transit/walking.
I’m going to guess that a lot of residents are going to get sick of their one or two coffee shops and restaurants real fast. A classic example of central planners creating a dystopia and pretending they’re guardians of a new heaven. …idiots.
Those one or two coffee shops and restaurants will know they have a captive audience and price accordingly. If people can go elsewhere, they will, and eventually those businesses within walking distance will go out of business.
Looks like the buildings are too close together, how did it pass fire code? How would fire trucks or EMTs be able to an emergency if there is no roads?
Tiny towns are nothing new, the city I worked for allowed them in the early 2000's, our fire Marshall quit over them, then they would catch fire every once in a while, it was a ball busting nightmare, couldn't set up a ladder truck to work the roof,'s (all humping ground ladders, Engine companies had to lay long stretches of duce and a half with gates and highrise bundle' s and extra donuts, fortunately it was restricted to one part of the city, I was never so glad to get transferred way across town way out of the district.
“Can you imagine living above your grocery store?” - as a Londoner this is such a strange sentence to hear. Americans finally waking up to how strange and alienating their car-centric towns are
I lived in London for a year as a Californian - I don’t think a Londoner should preach to others about alienation and isolation. London was the most emotionally cold and unwelcoming place I’ve ever lived, and I’ve lived abroad in France, Italy and Mexico.
@@SSGoatanks As long as you don't have friends and family in Surprise, Gilbert etc. Or a job that's walking distance. Keeping in mind public transportation in the Phoenix Metro is horrible.
Do these people not have jobs? Can’t get to work without a car unless you work at the grocery store. Will everyone work at the grocery store? I don’t get it…..
Guaranteed, Erin Boyd, ( the salesman here) who attended Stanford , w ill not being living in a 15 min city. Her degrees at Stanford? Arts degree in International Educational Administration and Policy Analysis. ~Seriously. wtf is that…. Either she comes from serious wealth, or our taxes paid for her to go there- student loans. F these ppl
You mean the 15 minute from home prison cities, where you own nothing and like it, have limited if any mobiliy, and eat a diet of GMO's and bug protein filled with chitin?
Guess you better become a Globalist Stakeholder Elite, and help them build the dystopian nightmare back better. After they tear down, what's here now...of course. Cause I hear they get to eat the finest cuts of steak, jet set world wide in private, all while they accrue not a single carbon credit. It's a club you see, and you ain't in it.
Oh no! A 15-minute city? So, I just need 15 minutes to get everything I need? That sounds terrible. I'd rather drive my car and get stuck in traffic jams!
@@DejiiJones_billions of people all over the world live in places like this and have better emergency response times than the US - because everything isn't as spread out due to low density suburbs, there's less traffic and better, socialized health care with more hospitals.
They've actually said as much! I've saved a video where one of the "elites" explained that the wealthy will still be able to travel, while the rest of us with "lesser means" can use VR head sets ~ and he said this with a straight face! Check the UN's sustainability goals. England will have NO active airports after 2050, if things go according to plan . . .
Are the developers bereft of common sense? Just looking at this retro-soviet place gives me the creeps. We have walkable neighborhoods all over the world that have been built by answering real issues, not by surrendering to central planning committees.
You know you don’t have to live there. And if it’s a failure, well that’s capitalism and some other developer will take over and make changes. This is a private enterprise not Soviet style command and control.
@@Basta11 Check out the surveillance requirements of "smart cities" ~ and then read "Technocracy Rising". This will eventually be far more "command and control" than you may have ever dared to imagine.
@@mettaz2I have nothing to hide. I would like there to be security in my apartment building. As long as my own apartment is private. And I don’t like that then I just don’t live there. It’s so simple. If there is a private smart city that is affordable, high quality, safe, with great amenities, why not?
If you're talking about how the $900 threshold was reclassified as a misdemeanor, which SF chose for awhile not to enforce because of police resourcing issues, that is an SF thing, not a progressive thing. NYC doesn't do that, and neither does Philadelphia.
The entire complex visually looks BORING with little to no individuality. I'd be hard-pressed to find my own 'home' within this complex.- Although this is in an incredibly hot temperature-wise area of the country, I couldn't stand not seeing true vegetable gardens, flowers and meaningful greenery.
that place will look like a real dump in a few years - and don't forget your neighbours might not be the quiet type we have 'blocks' of flats like that in the Uk and believe me - you don't wanna live there - car or no car
Who determines the price of food? Who determines electricity cost and usage ? I have to ride 15 min in the rain to get to work on my Ebike? Do plumbers get a car or do they carry pipes and fittings on their back? What about carpenters? Do they carry replacement doors on their E bikes with tools and compressors? Do we get a complementary mark of the beast with our lease? Let the billionairs move in first and show us how it's done. BTW I have a 1 acre vegetable garden and some cattle. Can I farm food in my 15 min hell? I will not eat bugs as long as I can fish ,hunt deer ,turkey.rabbit and ducks. You say the grocery store is downstairs? Is it free food? Because the one in my yard is. 1 bean seed can grow 6 jars of pole beans. Like magic! And 100% organic......I'm gonna pass on that deal TYVM.
@@490o You might want to take a closer look: A 15-minute city is a "smart city" in an urban environment with omnipresent surveillance and data harvesting technologies that will monitor and record even the most intimate, personal details of every individual inhabiting it.
Wow, I get to live next to all those millionaire and billionaires that promote sustainable living? That would be great to live on top of Bill Gates, or right next door to Klaus Schwab. Oh, living next to Nicole Kidman, my wife would love that. Imagine living under Larry Fink and getting free stock picking advice in a howdy neighbor conversation on the balcony! I think this is a great idea. Can't wait to live on top of, and underneath all the rich and famous millionaire and billionaires who push ESG and sustainable living that will be moving here 😉
Riding bikes to the grocery store every day in 115 degree heat should be a lot of fun, especially when you can only get one bag at a time. Hope that bike has a big basket if you need bags of pet food or bundles of toilet paper/paper towels. Should be very convenient if you have a sprained or broken ankle or any kind of mobility issues. Grandma's going to love her daily hikes. No parking should make it a joy to invite family or friends to visit. Wonder how you get any deliveries without driveways or parking. They look like prison buildings. Hope those esg points are worth the money they're flushing down that composting toilet. 🤣
@@666chinchilla I live rural in the northern half of the state so I haven't really seen drones in use, most can't fly at our altitude. Do they have drones that can handle a large pack of paper towels or a large bag of dog food? What kind of volume and weight limit can they handle these days? For a small family with pets we probably buy around 100lbs of groceries each week so not sure how viable drone delivery would be.
A Getto by any other name. Just add some graffiti, and the picture is complete. I imagine the suicide rate in this sad horror show will be very high, but that is the plan after all.
Why is this an illness? Have you ever been to Italy? Or any city in Europe built before the 19th century ? Living in a dense community and not having a car is quite common around the world. I think you need to get out more
@@MyLifeInTheDesert I have been to 34 countries, lived a year in Denmark, and seen the absolute degradation of life that comes from it. Ignorance is bliss.
First off I do. It actually keeps me cooler than walking as I spend less time outside and I can get to most of my destinations in the time it takes to cool a car down. Second, you’re assuming that they’d be using Uber about as often as if they were using a car in Gilbert. The people moving here would be able to get to most of their destinations by foot, bike, or light rail/bus. They’d only need Uber for the occasional trip where those options aren’t viable, which in my experience in north Tempe is not as often as you may think.
Oh yeah, like I haven't seen anyone that ride bikes in 115 degrees, who would ever do that amirite, lol. God, why urban ignants like yours comment exist?
@@fingearsring9833 Legit, we’re the one of the hottest cities in the world during summer, but like, you signed up for this by living here. It’s hardly an argument against transit-oriented development.
It reduces your carbon footprint... but... that goes back up when the firetruck gets lost trying to find and access your 2nd floor apartment fire in the middle of the pedestrian spaced buildings.
NO WONDER Kari Lake said these stations have falling viewership. They cant really REPORT/INVESTIGATE. I am only seeing this vid as a link from Alex Jones website.
It is a fantastic advertisement for a modern minimum security prison, and no court system needed to fill it. It does sound like a very nice prison, doesn't it? Can any of you think of catchy advertisement phrases for it? Mine is too crude: "Cull your sack free living"? You can do better than that.
As a former delivery driver in the Phoenix area, delivering to these units would be a nightmare. Could only imagine doing deliveries in that area during the summers 🥵
Yeah let's go ebike & walk in 115 degrees. Idea good, location not so much. Price is ridiculous & that they have "mobility" partners shows not having a vehicle is almost impossible. What about visitors?
I commute year round, if you can’t deal with cycling in a little bit of heat you should be in Az. Stop hating on a good idea just because you too lazy to get off the couch.
@@catherinerenee2668 oh yes, i moved to Arizona knowing the weather but am too lazy to go outside so will instead hate on people who can get around without a car. Grow up.
We had similar setup in socialism but, it didn't look so claustrophobic. We had parking lots in between buildings and we had fairly good public transportation. Also distances between places were much smaller than in US. One thing missing here is, how do you get to work or what do you do when you get sick?
The actual communist, that claim communism only was bad because it was done wrong, are actually worse at communism then the original communists. Original communism needed decades to convert civilized regions into rotten distopian hellholes, the new generation needs only months for that.
@@ishaqmo7200 Did they also think how far one needs to walk/wait to transportation (of any kind) in 118-122F. Those were temperatures in AZ few times I drove through. And yes, I know it is dry heat 😉
being in arizona is almost impossible without a car, everything is way too spread out and its hot 9 months out of the year, i rarely if ever see anyone on the sidewalks unless its at stores or parks, at night typically
Than how did people do it 50 years ago before every individual had a car? Singe home suburbs are the wordt type of housing to built in a dessert. It makes you need a car indeed.
I agree with what you say, and I think that needs to change. However I support the inclusion of the car into this as well. Phoenix is way too spread out and everyone hates driving forever to get where they need to go, especially with how awful gas prices are here so I believe more compact living like this would be better.
The 15-minute city comments are coming in talking about taking away our freedoms. I'm not sure where this conspiracy originated from but it's nice to have options other than driving a car to get to places. I don't see the freedom sitting in traffic when I have to pay extra fuel sitting in traffic. "15-minute cities" were kinda' the norm in the US until the Post War era began. Since then it's been pretty difficult to build those thriving neighborhoods we used to have. I live in a Single-Family house and I like it. I know there's a market for people who want to live in multi-family housing where most of everything is accessible by foot. Even in my Single-Family suburb zoning regulations could be loosened to allow some small commercial space or allow me to build a Casita on my property. The concept of 15-minute cities are about giving people extra options besides driving a car everywhere which would mean more freedoms for everyone. Our car culture, or Single-Family homes won't be going away (The houses themselves may go away sooner due to the poor construction techniques over the past decade). Just because a small portion of land is being developed prior to the 1940s zoning regulations does not mean your freedoms are going away. The freedoms are expanding to another group of people in the marketplace.
The uninformed, uneducated, conspiracy loon here is you. All you have to do, is lazily google "WEF 15 minute city" and enjoy what the elites have planned for you. Don't forget your 10th booster shot. Lmao.
Car-dependent infrastructure, excessive single family zoning, ridiculous sprawl, and minimum parking requirements are what are actually taking away our freedoms. I find it hard to believe that we can't see through this just because it's the status quo in poorly designed cities like Phoenix. I'm a huge car enthusiast and love my sports cars. I hate driving them in traffic, putting excessive miles on them, and putting them at risk of being destroyed by the inattentive drivers here, and wish I had the ability to walk or bike to work. It's not a love cars/hate cars argument like so many frame it to be.
Looks like they got rid of not just cars but also public space and elbow room. Yes they will provide everything you need on property because they won’t let you leave. That’s the part they won’t tell us till we’re already in. 15 minute city. Look it up. Cannot leave your “ city” without reason to do so and must have vaccine card to leave. You don’t want this. You will lose your freedom
This isn't a whole city. This is just an apartment complex. You got a grill, for part of that outdoor kitchen. You need free produce brought into the pantry from the nearby farms. These buildings in this neighborhood from the news story are way too close together by the way.
love it 😂 do you think real estate developers should be required to provide specifications to their customers like how you are given specs for tech products or ingredients for food?
It is. It is all about consumption and nothing about production. It can never make it "on their own". It is like a welfare that takes rich peoples money to live, and probably die there. Any "thinking mind" could not live there, unless they were forced to. It is a nice looking min security prison, I will admit,---for now. :)
Yes, you dum dum, I am from Europe living in AZ, and I know how it is when your grocery store, coffee shops, restaurants, even venues, clothing boutiques, and hairdresser are downstairs or on the same or within the next couple of blocks. Lived for a decade in NYC - another "everything in walking distance" place. I will not, however, be told not to drive because it is my convenience. Every time I go back to Europe, I enjoy the walking and public transportation blend of getting around as do many other people. However, most still have cars because they go across town, go do activities off their block, or it's too cold to wait for 20-30 minutes to get a bus. Having a car is great. I live in AZ, and I'm sure the inhabitants will love walking and biking around their hood starting around mid-April and through October. NOT. Summer is 120F, 7-8 months out of a year being outside during the day could lead to death, the Valley doesn't cool down at night, 2-3 months a year, it's in the 80ies and 90ies overnight. Since it's Tempe, it's gonna be the college brats probably. I do like walkable neighborhoods but once again, these ones are LAME. Also, in Europe, if you wanna live in an area like my parents live where you have a lot in a walking radius, you can buy your apartment; these are forced-on-you rentals, not condos or co-ops to own, just renting from an investment company, flushing cash down the toilet. Therefore, again, lame - as a European who grew up in walking cities, I would not live in this one, sorry! I live in a rental apartment but it's cheap as f*** and it's strategic for what I do. If it would be this price, I'd not do it. And yes, I can park my car outside; I also have the option to walk into town for clubs, bars, and restaurants, if I want. For half the $, not in Tempe.
Horrific! Looks like the prison that it is. It's just a mass of vertical and horizontal concrete, with nary a tree in sight. Where is a park for the children? How are the elderly going to get around? Never mind the dystopian tracking system they're putting in place ~ or the fact that the entire premise of reducing your "carbon footprint" is completely flawed . . . . This is a complete disaster in the making . . . . Looks like the name for this place is perfect: "Culdesac" = "Dead End"
There is so much land outside of the development, not providing parking is totally unecessary. This is just a large apartment/condo complex with too many amenities and no parking. Your rent/HOA will mostly be paying for the amenities that you don't need.
Well, i live in a place where my groceries shop is like 5 min by foot, and downtown is like 10 min by bike and 15 min by public transport. It's fascinating to see this architecture being portrayed as an innovation :D
They fail to mention the innovation part. Research 15 minute city’s. Bill Gates, Soros, radical left future housing plans. Everything is within 15 minutes. Must have valid reason to leave your “city”. Must have federal vaccination card to exit. Not the future we want for America.
Most big cities already offer this. Walkable neighborhood, grocery store, nearby public transportation, etc. Problem is, cities are expensive and most people have a long commute for work so it ruins the whole vibe. I like the idea of the free electric bike and EV car rental options though.
The people moving there are likely already enthusiastic about living without a car, so they either don't have one or if they do they'd probably store it with family or in a nearby parking garage. Edit: Besides, being a resident comes with a 15% discount off Lyft rides and a $5/hour car-sharing program for destinations that require driving, so they facilitate pretty well living without owning a car.
This is about money, parking lots take up valuable land. Probably saved enough room to squeeze in 2-3 additional buildings! Whoever came up with this idea was a genius. 😂
I'm tired of young noisy guys creating a nusiance noise out of their vehicles, with rocket engine noises in the motors, or their speakers. They wanna drive up and down the sidewalks honking at times showing how loud their train horn is. They seem to get karma somehow eventually but it's been some years of hell listening to it since the cv lockdown started they got excited about their noisy vehicles, and even motorcycle clubs. These crowded boxed up apts, don't seem a solution to it at the price of side effects. Can't see your garden out the front door. Back in the days, those kind of apts were lived in for 1 years before people moved up into a house. Lonely people crowded up the city and gang members box them all into places. It kinda takes a fortress to live in and belong to for doing it right. What's going to stop people from sneaking drugs into those private apartments. It takes a whole community where it's not sections off because they are no drug addicts.
Bet the prices in their grocery store and shops are much higher than outside the 15 minute city, but what choice do you have? Rent a car so you can shop elsewhere? And what do invited visitors do with their cars? This place is tomorrow's slum.
Figures its the leftist/marxist town tempe (not capitalized on purpose) I quit going there years ago. (I live in Phoenix) It truly is a depressing, disturbing spot. Completely *not* Arizona! I'm a starve-the-beast girl, so it's easy for me to avoid those products, areas and businesses that are anti-American, anti-America, and anti-Arizona. Because one of the biggest statements one can make is, where you spend your money.
Median rent in Tempe is $1452 for a 705 sq ft apartment so no that much different. Brand new builds probably much higher; I’d imagine Cul De Sac is less than comparable brand new apartment buildings due to not need massively expensive parking garages most new five-over-ones have
And the communists built communes back in the day. This is not a new concept. Even Stalin put his stack and pack concrete communes on top of grocery and hardware stores. Today this is actually a regressive idea coming from the "progressive" party. It's not progression, it's regression, going back to the horse and buggy days, but with a bicycle. The bicycle was invented in 1860, forty years before the first Model T rolled off the assembly line in Detroit. How is this progression? Question: What was the carbon footprint of the Dark Ages that lasted 900 years? Answer: Zero.
@@scottleggejr Imagine driving your car and having to wait 5-10 minutes just for the AC to make the temperature reasonable, and having to deal with the air and multiple surfaces starting at +130 F. Either way this neighborhood is was/is being built specifically with the Arizona heat in mind (they have a whole blog post about it), unlike most neighborhoods in Phoenix which exacerbate the urban heat island effect.
@@ryanmitchell5614 I press a button on my phone and it cools down. So good imagination but irrelevant scenario. Here's my imaginary scenario. It's moving day and you can't take a moving truck within a thousand feet of your home and it's 110F outside. How many bird scooters does it take to move a dresser 🤔
@@scottleggejr yeah, and Culdesac can have temperatures about 10-15 degrees cooler within the premises, especially in the areas that matter, so nice imagination but it’s accounted for. For the maybe 1-2 times a year the average person buys furniture or a refrigerator or something, you can rent a U-Haul and dolly and carry it to your apartment. But if it’s moving day and you need to move in a bunch of stuff, that sounds like a moving service thing which they partnered with Lugg for.
@@scottleggejrconsidering that our urban sprawl is a big contributor to why Arizona feels way hotter than what the temperature says this is a solution why are you so against this
