evidence: Implementing the 15-minute city concept requires a multi-disciplinary approach, involving transportation planning, urban design, and policymaking, to create well-designed public spaces, pedestrian-friendly streets, and mixed-use development. This change in lifestyle may include remote working which reduces daily commuting and is supported by the recent widespread availability of information and communications technology. The concept has been described as a "return to a local way of life".[6] [...] In early 2023, far-right conspiracy theories emerged that described 15-minute cities as instruments of government repression, claiming that they were a pretext to introduce restrictions on travel by car.[9][10][11][12] In fact, the '15-minute city' proposals do not involve any restrictions on travel by car – unrelated measures[a] introduced to reduce traffic in some cities have been somehow confused with '15-minute cities'. [...] Societal effects [edit]The 15-minute city, with its emphasis on walkability and accessibility, has been put forward as a way to better serve groups of people that have historically been left out of planning, such as women, children, people with disabilities, people with lived experience of mental illness,[5] and the elderly.[2]