This guy is great! I think his latest video might be his best to date, because of how frankly it lays out the facts. I suspect even liberals could be convinced by his points in that one.
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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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his analysis of car-centric infrastructure costs vs walkable neighborhoods in that video was eye-opening, especialy how he breaks down the maintainance burden on cities.