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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Streetmix is an online tool which you can use to 'design and remix' your own street (streetmix.net)

submitted 1 year ago by frankPodmore to c/urbanism

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I thought Alt Urbanism might enjoy this! A fun little tool which I mainly use to redesign annoying junctions that I've cycled through. It's a really good demonstration of just how much space cars take up and how much better things could be if less roadspace was dedicated to cars.

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[–] frankPodmore 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] hazeebabee 4 points 1 year ago

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.