Thread by @EuropeanPowell

Charter cities are coming. Patrik Schumacher libertarian superc*nt 'Abolish social housing, scrap prescriptive planning regulations & usher in the wholesale privatisation of our streets, squares and parks' He welcomed London’s influx of overseas investors
theguardian.com/artanddesign/2…

His uncompromising position on social housing estates provoked particularly audible disgust. “When socially renting tenants are asked to move and offered a new place somewhere else, they are given these new houses for free,”

City-centre locations should instead be used to house “the most economically potent and most productive users who serve us most effectively, we should build a new city on Hyde Park. How much are you actually using it?” he asked Londoners in the audience.

Titus Gebel charter cities envisages a world of micro-states run by private companies, where citizens pay a corporate service provider to provide a utopian world of “guaranteed security, limitless innovation and no more social strife” miro.com/app/board/uXjV…

Schumacher “I think governance as a business offering is an interesting idea to pursue.” Citing privately run Indian city of Gurgaon – a place where residents prosper at the expense of the surrounding area>

>their sewage dumped in rivers, the groundwater depleted by private boreholes, with citizens segregated in elite colonies and high-rise ghettos.
For f*cks sake UK wake up, the patterns of libertarian takeover of your cities is happening, parallels to Honduras, Shenzen, Rwanda!

Schumacher “Equality is an aspiration but it should not be a priority over economic progress.”
It is a doctrine, Chomsky concludes, that “if ever implemented, would lead to forms of tyranny and oppression that have few counterparts in human history” #CharterCities #Libertarian