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Historically, urban areas tend to develop around the distance people can travel in a hour.
I'm referencing that pattern of development and stating that we should set the scale to the distance someone can walk in an hour, the slowest form of transportation, rather that privileging faster forms of transportation.
As you already pointed out, for other modes this would be better than a 15 minute city