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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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Your local NIMBYs don't like barrier-protected on-road bike lanes? (pxscdn.com)

submitted 1 year ago by ajsadauskas@pixelfed.social to c/urbanism

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Your local NIMBYs don't like barrier-protected on-road bike lanes?

But you have wide footpaths?

Consider doing what Klaipeda (in Lithuania) did, and put your painted bike lane on the footpath, rather than the road.

Yeah, it's not an ideal solution, but it's better than fighting traffic.

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[–] frankPodmore 5 points 1 year ago

Problem with this is it takes space away from one efficient mode of transport (walking) and gives it to another (cycling), similar to what they've done with bus lanes and cycle lanes in London. It means the net efficiency gains in terms of passengers per hour are much smaller than if you took the space away from cars, while also the subjective experience for pedestrians gets worse!