Public Comment
The “Right to the City”: Who should control the process of urbanization in Berkeley?
Berkeleyside published the OpEd that I put together after Tuesday's council meeting.
Please share widely:
"The “Right to the City” is an idea proposed by Lefebvre that those who live in a city have a democratic right, a human right, to shape the process of urbanization.
"Unfortunately we seem to live in a world where private property rights, where profit rates, trump all other human rights. We seem to live in a time where the majority of our City Council believes the neoliberal notion that markets should determine all change -— that profit-driven decision making by the .01% must determine our future. This neoliberal exercise of power by the developer-investor class is anti-democratic. The backroom deals between the Berkeley City Council and for-profit-developers, deals that control Berkeley’s process of urbanization, are diametrically opposed to democratic rule and social justice."
http://www.berkeleyside.com/2016/04/08/op-ed-the-right-to-the-city/
