Trees or Mushrooms? Politicizing Citizen-Worker-Consumers in the City-Factory · BG · berlinergazette.de · EN|DE

The ecological crises of the planet are closely linked to big cities, or more precisely to urban metabolisms, i.e. to socio-economic processes, especially to growth and profit-oriented production and consumption, which consume resources and energy, require an incessant supply of materials, goods and labor, generate waste, pollution and more. To get a better grip on this as a political field, it is high time to rethink the city as a factory, as Alin Răuțoiu argues in his contribution to the “Kin City” series.