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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 great. I just wish solving the issues I have to deal with as a cyclist were as ‘easy’ to do. Not a lot I can do when bike lanes just end and the road narrows enough to make it unreasonable to add one beyond pouring more asphalt.
There are plenty of things you can do as a cyclist to force change.
What is a just a minute protest? asking for a friend
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDboYpYvT2o
(You can do an impromptu protest by yourself, too: when a car stopped in the bike lane blocks your path, simply pull up next to it and block the general-purpose lane while you wait for the obstruction to clear.)