Why This “Anti-Car Labyrinth” Is Actually Brilliant

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Why This “Anti-Car Labyrinth” Is Actually Brilliant

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Solarpunk Urbanism@slrpnk.netEnglish · 3 months ago

All over the world, cities are trying to make biking safer. But one design that’s totally normal in bike utopia (the Netherlands) still causes confusion and even outrage elsewhere. This is a new bi...

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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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