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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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Thoughts about electric quad bikes for 'ruralism'? (s3.amazonaws.com)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml to c/urbanism@slrpnk.net

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I'm a country boy all my life. I can't cycle or take the metro anywhere. Walkable cities are great but they're a hundred miles away.

Everyone goes on about how they hate cars, but what else are you supposed to do?

https://electrek.co/2023/12/04/livaq-equad-unveiled-as-most-capable-electric-atv-ever/ – this article talks about something with a 108km/h and a range of 273 km. It's mad expensive unfortunately, but that is normally to do with adoption rates and scale.

(It says "claims a range of 170 miles (273 km) from its 15.4 kWh battery pack", which implies consumption of about 55 watt-hours per km travelled, though that'd be variable depending on speed and conditions)

If I had one of these, I could get to town, get to a train station, without a car. I could carry one child, which is worse than a car, but the energy consumption is a 3-4× lower than a car. If train stations had swappable batteries, that would be ideal, but I don't see that coming any time soon.

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[–] GammaGames@beehaw.org 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This would not be great in the winter, the truth is for rural living personal vehicles (or at least communal vehicles) are going to be required

[–] frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Right that's my point, but what kind

[–] GammaGames@beehaw.org 2 points 11 months ago

Trucks, vans, etc. something that can handle normal winter roads and haul the people and goods that are needed. Maybe a bus if you’re a hutterite