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"Cities define the lives of all those who call them home: where they go, how they get there, and how they spend their time. But what if we built our cities differently? What if we could get a cashback on time and use it to live in a new way? In this fascinating, meticulously researched and reported, and readily accessible book, longtime Financial Times journalist Natalie Whittle looks at metropolises all over the world to consider the idea of the fifteen-minute city, defined as a city that is designed so that everyone who lives there can reach everything they need within fifteen minutes on foot or by bike. Whittle helps us to understand its pros, its cons, and its potential to revolutionize modern living. With global warming reaching a crisis point and the post-pandemic world bringing a previously unimaginable decline in commuting, Whittle's timely book serves as a call to reflect on the ""hows"" and ""whys"" of our basic relationship to our neighborhoods, cars, all of our daily comings and goings. Building her study by carefully considering how we use space and time, Whittle traverses both, collecting models from ancient Athens to modern Paris and New York that demonstrate how one idea could change our daily lives--and the world--for good."

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Glasgow-based writer and editor Natalie Whittle is a freelance contributor to the Financial Times, where previously she held editing roles across the magazine and arts sections of FT Weekend for fifteen years. She founded Outwith Books, an independent bookshop and writing space in Govanhill on Glasgow's Southside that was open from 2019 to 2022. Lorna Bennett is a British classically trained actor and alumna of the prestigious London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA). She has narrated books for HarperAudio, Blackstone Publishing, Disney, Dreamscape Media, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Chelsea Green Publishing, Harlequin, Podium, Realm (previously Serial Box), Apple News+, and Audible. Additionally, Lorna has worked internationally in film, TV, and theater, with screen credits including New Amsterdam (NBC), Torchwood (BBC), and Stuart: A Life Backwards (HBO/BBC), and on stage has portrayed numerous classical roles, including Hedda Gabler, Titania, Beatrice, and Portia.

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