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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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This is exactly the problem with parking privatization - it completely misses Shoup's point! One of his core principles was that parking meter revenue should benefit the neighborhoods where it's collected, creating a "positive feedback loop" for local improvements. When cities sell off parking rights to private companies (like Chicago's infamous 75-year deal), they get a one-time payment but lose decades of potential community investment. Such a shame.