The Trouble with Abundance | a new book by Derek Thompson and Ezra Klein correctly diagnoses the problems with American urban development but offers only flawed top-down solutions

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The Trouble with Abundance | a new book by Derek Thompson and Ezra Klein correctly diagnoses the problems with American urban development but offers only flawed top-down solutions

www.strongtowns.org

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Solarpunk Urbanism@slrpnk.netEnglish · 22 days ago

The Trouble with Abundance

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"Abundance" by Derek Thompson and Ezra Klein is a hopeful, energetic manifesto that diagnoses a key American failure: We’ve forgotten how to build. Abundance won’t fix that.

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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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