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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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@poVoq It really is Peak Urbanism! I can't stress enough how great it is to have a green track for trams. Here's an example:
Tram line in Liviu Rebreanu street, Bucharest, before modernizing:
A picture of the old tracks, next to the new tracks:
Other ones, with old tracks still intact:
Nowadays, after years of modernization works, it looks like this:
Google Maps Street View link from the area (just navigate ahead).
While the area is more congested indeed, trams run smoothly through, and drivers can no longer get in the way of trams unless they want to get stuck in the mud.