The Bourgeoisie have doors open for them to live in most major cities in the world. If their presence was not bad enough on its own, many of them also gentrify neighborhoods that are historically primarily home to ethnic minorities. Architects in capitalist societies are also incentivized to design bourgeois cities that give the ruling class views on the rest of society or even build huge highways that hide the views of indigenous or minority communities of a city. While the city developments we see now may not be as overtly egregious as colonial developments that made white cities inaccessible to most native residents, the same concept is just applied along economic class lines (Which are intersectional with other demographics) which makes it subtle and less bothersome to those who aren’t familiar with class struggle or the conditions surrounding economic oppression that happens daily in cities.

Homelessness is met with spikes and railings on benches designed to stop people from sleeping. Encampments of homeless people are turned into parking lots if the police are not sent to brutalize them with batons. The regime even designs city centers in ways to make it easier for police to crack down on protests. Despite all of this, we do not see any improvements to the actual working class who are necessary for the continued functioning of the cities. The subways are still dirty, dangerous, and overcrowded since they are privately owned and during rainy seasons can even flood entirely. Infrastructure that benefits anyone except the bourgeoisie is so foreign to the United States that it seems alien and idealistic, despite it being ubiquitous in China or any place in the world that has freed itself from capitalist tyranny.

The world does not need another Dubai or Singapore where rightism, inequality and eugenics dictate infrastructure and city design. The world does not need another Tel Aviv or Washington DC where imperialist wars and genocides are planned. The world needs another Beijing, Pyongyang, Hanoi, or Havana where the masses are happy to live and have neighborhoods and transport designed for the benefit of the working class. Cities free from landlords, petit-bourgeois, and class enemies that are designed for the proletariat and only the proletariat. The masses must be allowed to defend themselves from gentrification, exploitation, police violence, poverty, and all the other inhumane practices of capitalist society.