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- 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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In my city there are a lot of bicycle lanes but practically no bike racks near any businesses - and the lanes themselves avoid the main commercial streets and wind through residential neighborhoods instead.
It's painfully obvious the bicycle infrastructure is designed for rich yuppies exercising and not commuting or shopping. Because fuck the poors.
Watched a NotJustBikes video about how poor people are actually subsidizing rich neighborhoods because of how inefficient and under taxed the houses are. Suburbs actually lose North American cities tons of money, but no one wants to make walkable cities since cars own everything now.
I don't think that's 100% true. I know they're building a walkable, car fee suburb in Phoenix/mesa. And at least in my area (Southern Hamilton county Indiana) they're building more and more multi use pathways for cyclists and pedestrians along the major roads to businesses and schools.
You should totally pull up Google maps and select cycling routes in that area (near Carmel) and tell me what you think. It's not just scenic trails through neighborhoods, but actually useful routes to places you want to shop or hang out.