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Historically, animal-rights advocates have focused on “negative rights,” like the right not to be killed, tortured, or confined: basically, the things we shouldn’t do to animals. But what about our positive obligations, the actions we should take on animals’ behalf? To some scholars those may include “design[ing] our buildings, roads, and neighborhoods in a way that takes into account animals’ needs.”
Cancer may be a common cause of death, but it is not a common event in life.
Like many of his SI compatriots, Constant viewed the post-WWII city as a site for both critique and intervention. He and a Situationist collaborator, the cultural critic Guy Debord, declared as much in setting forth a concept they dubbed “Unitary Urbanism,” which considered the city not as an agglomeration of faceless architecture and bureaucratic processes but as a set of creative social practices.
The Smart City Is a Perpetually Unrealized Utopia
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