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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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It sounds reasonable to me, like how cars absorb the energy of an impact, instead of trying to resist it. Is this being done anywhere else?
Yes. The title is clickbait, it's been practiced in urban planning for a long time now
So you're suggesting we drive all the cars into the ocean... crazy, but it just might work!
It sounds like LA has been implementing it for a bit and it's starting to pay off
https://www.wired.com/story/los-angeles-just-proved-how-spongy-a-city-can-be/