The stuff about "enlisted" is just his sponsor. Sorry :-/
this post was submitted on 01 Jul 2023
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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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Any chance of a summary for the video-impaired?
I can try tonight
From the bullet points at 8 minutes:
"Free" parking is/makes ...
- inefficient space use
- cities heat up faster and more
- swallows taxpayers money
- denies cities income
- motivates people to get in their cars (induced demand)
- increases the price you pay for housing
- significant socioeconomic damage (car-dependency makes it harder to escape poverty, poverty increases crime)
In summary, the idea of the video is that cars are overall one of the worst means of transportation. "Free" parking just means someone else pays for it, instead of the direct users. So it is a subsidy, which makes even those people pay who don't use it. Which in itself is not a bad thing, if the subsidized thing is a good thing (health care, education, public transport), but in this case it is. The subsidy also makes cars seem more attractive, when we actually need to make them less attractive.
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