Status Updates From Shrink the City: The 15-Min...

"[Looking at Arizona as an example, in the context of rising temperatures] In the very worst version of what a 15-minute city might mean, something along these lines could emerge as the only option. For personal safety from intolerable temperatures, a quarter of an hour would be the only practicable time frame in which to carry out daily errands."

"Pre-pandemic Manhattan would see its population more than double during the day, with 1.64 million people using trains, buses, and ferries to show up for work on the island. There are also more than four hundred subway stations and a ridership of around 1.6 billion people per year... 52 percent of the daytime Manhattan population, according to census data, are commuters..."