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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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I hope the part where it says that some places are starting to price parking "right", have moved the profits local first, because what I've seen in some towns is that they already sold off the parking rights to some company, and the profits of pricing parking "right" will not be invested locally.
In good American fashion of course. I think I learned about that in Last Week Tonight, as well as the fact the private company could file for damages if the city caused them loss of business (for example due to road construction). Absolutely insane but not unexpected.
Yeah Chicago's future was sold by a corrupt mayor
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.