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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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Yes it will, which is why Paris needs political unification. These policies only apply to the commune of Paris, while the rest (which is the majority of urban population) still suffers bad urbanism. The divide is exploited to drive a wedge and get anti-urbanist politicians elected in the rest of Ile de France.
Edit: for a clarification this is how the urban population of Greater Paris is divided
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%8Ele-de-France#Petite_Couronne
Just to expand on this. Grand Paris, which is Petite Couronne and some other municipalities bordering it, is about as large in areas as Berlin, but with nearly twice the population for example. So we are not talking about some rural or suburban part of the France.
Also it is a general French problem of not adjusting city boundaries for ages. Large French cities rarely have a border with a municipality, which is actually rural.