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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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We can certainly vote for better transit and cycling infrastructure, for less car parking, higher taxes for heavier vehicles, etc. Eventually the presence of private motor vehicles in dense urban cores should be minimal to nonexistent. There is a huge room for improvement in North America and we aren't moving fast enough in the direction of sustainability.