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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The Uniquely American Epidemic of Traffic Deaths (bettercities.substack.com)

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Interesting article with some great linked research and practical solutions to the issue of traffic deaths.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I'm hoping dash cams also provide another route to feedback on poor behavior on the road. People can be and are responsive to social cues, but the ability to send them between vehicles is limited and people develop extremely selfish behavior in response.

The only good thing about it is that it does largely cut through other biases that people have. Women are not more vulnerable than men in their cars. Race usually isn't the first salient thing drivers notice about other cars. But howdy do people like to walk that line of "rude but won't quite cause a crash" on the road.