Solarpunk Urbanism

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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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The Land of Ferrari and Lamborghini Has a New Speed Limit: 30 K.P.H. (www.nytimes.com)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I don’t know how other countries do it

We don’t coddle the auto industry and let them lobby competing transportation out of existence. We’re also not hostile to alternate transportation such as bicycles.

Here in the Netherlands I can bike to the coast in 20 minutes or I can take a 20 minute train to Amsterdam.

That’s unreasonable

Not in a European city.

it’s so slow that many will probably start ignoring all speed limits, making roads more dangerous and enforcement difficult.

That’s a nice slippery slope fallacy.