Thank you for this. I've xposted to !fuckcars@lemmy.world .
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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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How can a city with well over 10 million people have no cars on Sunday?
How can the city with massive traffic jams have car-free Sunday?
It sounds weird but that’s what makes car-free Sunday in Jakarta such an interesting event to check out while you are in the city.
How can Jakarta have no cars on Sunday?
The first thing that you have to realize when we talk about car-free Sunday is that not all the roads throughout the city become ‘car-free’.
Actually, there are designated zones within the city that are completely blocked off to motorcycles and cars. These designated zones are where thousands upon thousands of participants go to experience this event.