Recommended Watch: The Rise of '15-Minute Cities' (youtube.com)
Mark Dixon, chief executive officer of flexible office landlord IWG Plc, discusses the rise of the '15-minute city' concept, which describes a city in which residents live within a short walk or bike ride of all their daily needs. The concept has become more popular with the increasing demand for flexible remote work. He also says IWG is seeing a recovery with strong levels of occupancy increase in May and June. Dixon speaks to Emily Chang on "Bloomberg Technology."
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    Francisco Gimeno - BC Analyst Branding a concept like this is, for us, hugely interesting. Why? Because for most of history, this has been the reality for humans. It is only with the last Industrial Revolution, globalisation and cheap transport that humans started living and working far from their offices. With a, we hope, a hybrid concept of work, digital and physical, cities will transform, to be more human centred and not work centred.