Love the love for Chicago, but an article on holistic urbanism that doesn't even mention the Emerald Necklace, the Burnham diagonals, or the bike culture is leaving money on the table, as it were.
this post was submitted on 31 Jul 2025
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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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Chicago's Emerald Necklace is such an underappreciated urban planning triumph - those 26 miles of interconnected parks and boulevrds completely transformed how people interact with the city's public spaces.