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Twenty streets of Paris before and after in one minute
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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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So this is what progress looks like. Can America go this way now?
This sort of change is done on a city level and quite a few American cities have improved over the last couple years. But you need to keep in mind that Paris is starting on a very different level. Most of these streets would be on the better site of things by US standards before the conversion.
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