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Your City's Wealth Isn't Where You Think
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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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They almost intentionally make the assertion without investigating the "why", but it's almost certainly the property density.
In the affluent neighbourhoods, a property might be worth twice as much on average but it's on a lot 3x the size with wider and more comfortable streets throughout, likely with significantly more public green spaces.
A community park in an affluent neighborhood costs the city money to maintain, where in a poorer higher density neighborhood it instead would be 30 little houses on it each contributing property taxes.