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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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This is interesting, thanks for sharing! I lived in Cincinnati as a child and remember my dad walking to the end of our street to get on a bus to ride to work. I left the area as a young adult, but have driven there since (have fam in Hamilton) and have always found the growth and sprawl remarkable. I thought that was because where I have lived as an adult, but it sounds like not.
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Very cool. Yeah, Cincinnati’s sprawl is crazy - but there’s a lot of opportunity for transit oriented development so I guess that the optimistic perspective.