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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 title is a shit take. We have a word for when what something is doing isn't aligned with it's purpose, broken. If something is broken it needs fixing.
I think you're missing the point. It's not broken. It's working completely as intended. The system is doing exactly what it was designed to do. The broken part is in the juxtaposition of what you think it should do.
Even then - the purpose is not derived from the end result, meaning that the title is still a shit take.
The purpose of a system is what it does - Wikipedia