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Re-purposing malls as solarpunk co-housing
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this post was submitted on 19 Jun 2023
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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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Looks like it could be a fun place to live, though I'm concerned about heating and cooling. Where I am, malls cannot survive without massive airconditioning.
Yeah, I'd imagine a building would need some modifications to work well. Though I think that large-space HVAC is a problem that's already been solved in other contexts, such as large office and academic buildings. Some retrofitting or other architectural adjustments might still be needed, of course. And the plans should definitely be double-checked in light of climate change making current conditions different from how they were whenever each particular mall was built, probably decades ago.