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A community to discuss solarpunk and other new and alternative urbanisms that seek to break away from our currently ecologically destructive urbanisms.
- Henri Lefebvre, The Right to the City — In brief, the right to the city is the right to the production of a city. The labor of a worker is the source of most of the value of a commodity that is expropriated by the owner. The worker, therefore, has a right to benefit from that value denied to them. In the same way, the urban citizen produces and reproduces the city through their own daily actions. However, the the city is expropriated from the urbanite by the rich and the state. The right to the city is therefore the right to appropriate the city by and for those who make and remake it.
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If they give money to transit riders drivers won't get that extra lane that will finally solve traffic!
So once again, it's that mindset that votes for purely personal reward rather than the health of the group?
If humanity was a single body, it seems like that would be like one of the toes voting against having a critical organ.
Pretty much. Just the typical "American individualism" at play, as usual.
If only traffic congestion could be solved by having fewer people rely on driving... oh well.