but you can still shop wherever you want to. you can still drive wherever you want to. the idea of 15 minute/walkable cities is not to keep you in a one mile block for the rest of your life under pain of death or imprisonment or whatever. it's to provide incentive to use cars less. it's the literal exact opposite of the paranoid authoritarian fantasy people want it to be. authoritarianism wants you to do the desired activity or else. the philosophy behind walkable cities wants to remake cities such that you have less need to use a car to get somewhere because walking or biking or taking public transportation is genuinely better. that's it.
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