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Solarpunk Urbanism
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A community to discuss solarpunk and other new and alternative urbanisms that seek to break away from our currently ecologically destructive urbanisms.
- 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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Great concept.
How is 30% tree coverage possible? The Street has to fully be covered and the house needs a garden. As long as trees are not on a roof, dense housing becomes impossible.
Tree lined sidewalks cover a lot of space once the trees become mature. And maybe dense housing with parks and green patches
With parks in between and maybe block designs that include interior shared green-spaces that seems very compatible with dense housing. On the contrary, dense housing uses less surface area per inhabitant (due to stacking apartments vertically) thus there is more space left for trees in between.