this post was submitted on 21 Aug 2024
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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 — 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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I’ve been dreaming about this for decades. One challenge is that cities can’t directly control upstream pollution on rivers, which is generally the most common form of accessible swimming area.
We need better governance structures for rivers and other systems where selfish actions by people can cause harm distant to where it originates.