A TikTok video with more than 167,000 views claims Mississauga, a large Toronto suburb, is planning to limit its residents' movements and their right to own gasoline-powered cars. This is false, according to city officials, Transport Canada and independent experts -- the "15-minute city" redevelopment plan seeks to make neighborhoods more walkable but has no restrictive measures.

"This is pure control," says the speaker in a February 13, 2023 TikTok video warning against plans to redesign parts of Mississauga, Ontario, a city of more than 800,000 people.

The three-minute video has been shared across social media, including in a Facebook post that warns: "The plan is to put ALL of us in these 15-minute cities, including the people who are currently living in rural and suburban areas."

Screenshot of a TikTok post taken March 7, 2023

Screenshot of a Facebook post taken March 7, 2023

The posts are the latest in a series of conspiratorial claims about "15-minute cities," an urban planning concept credited to Carlos Moreno, a professor at Paris's Sorbonne University.

"The 15-minute city is not about confining or restricting, but about freeing up time for citizens," Moreno told AFP on March 2. "It is not about preventing movement, but about giving everyone the choice to move. It is about stopping the long and tiring journeys that are forced by the current urban model."

He said claims that such cities will limit movement are "manipulation" and "lies."

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