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Pothole mosaics — a somewhat common form of city art, where the artist fills small cracks with colourful tiles. Photo from Marseille
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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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Beautiful - but does it last? The holes and cracks are likely due to localized wear, meaning the mosaic would need to have at least the same wear resistance as the surrounding material.