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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 โ 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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As the owner of several fruit trees, I feel that cities are right to not plant them on city streets.
The fruit makes a huge mess and draws in pests and create slip hazards.
They require more maintenance than most non fruiting trees so they don't grow too tall.
Things they drop have a weight that can harm people and property.
Food of a dubious source with unknown water supply could harm the public and leave the city liable, because you would have a hard time saying you didn't know people would eat it.