Solarpunk Urbanism

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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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[–] houseofleft 5 points 2 months ago

I though this would be some kind of scifi future Venice type thing, and was pretty stoked. Even more exciting that it's a real project!

I surf and it's amazing just how many beaches aren't always safe to swim at, let alone city rivers and lakes. I think we forget how surreal it is how little lives in those waters.