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Solarpunk UrbanismEnglish · 11 months ago

Can American cities save themselves? This one thinks so

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Can American cities save themselves? This one thinks so

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Solarpunk UrbanismEnglish · 11 months ago

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Can American Cities Save Themselves? This One Thinks So.

South Bend is used to being written off as a dying city, but the people who live there are writing a new story. They're not waiting for someone else to save ...

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This was freaking fascinating and so inspiring. Thank you for sharing. I’m going to look into this “strong towns” thing…

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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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