This book addresses a central dilemma of the urban age: how to make the vast suburban landscapes that ring the globe safe and sustainable in the face of planetary ecological crisis. The authors argue that degrowth, a planned contraction of economic overshoot, is the only feasible principle for subur...

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Hauptverfasser:	Alexander, Samuel 1979- (VerfasserIn), Gleeson, Brendan 1964- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Singapore Palgrave Macmillan [2019]
Schlagworte:	Suburbaner Raum Nachhaltigkeit Stadtentwicklung Umweltschutz Klimaänderung Australien Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie Urban Studies/Sociology Sociology, Urban Human Geography Social sciences
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Zusammenfassung:	This book addresses a central dilemma of the urban age: how to make the vast suburban landscapes that ring the globe safe and sustainable in the face of planetary ecological crisis. The authors argue that degrowth, a planned contraction of economic overshoot, is the only feasible principle for suburban renewal. They depart from the anti-suburban sentiment of much environmentalism to show that existing suburbia can be the centre-ground of transition to a new social dispensation based on the principle of self-limitation. The book offers a radical new urban imaginary, that of degrowth suburbia, which can arise Phoenix like from the increasingly stressed cities of the affluent Global North and guide urbanisation in a world at risk. This means dispensing with much contemporary green thinking, including blind faith in electric vehicles and high-density urbanism, and accepting the inevitability and the benefits of planned energy descent. A radical but necessary vision for the times.
Beschreibung:	xi 213 Seiten 1 Illustration
ISBN:	9789811321306