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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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Very cool!
The one thing it seems to be lacking, unless I'm missing it, is a "cost" variable. Since what we'd like to see and what we can afford to build are often very different, it would be nice to have a cost variable to play with!
True! You could even have upfront cost vs. costs over time. Although if it's too complicated, it'd turn into SimCity after a certain point.
I mean, I actually would be really into playing a sustainability focused simcity. Sounds so fun lol Maybe you start out with a modern city and have to work to revamp it into a sustainable city. Or as you build a city you have to manage cost, citizen satisfaction, and environmental effects.