Housing for Degrowth: Principles, Models, Challenges and Opportunities

'Degrowth', a type of 'postgrowth', is becoming a strong political, practical and cultural movement for downscaling and transforming societies beyond capitalist growth and non-capitalist productivism to achieve global sustainability and satisfy everyone's basic needs. This g...

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Other Authors: Nelson, Anitra (Editor), Schneider, François (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Milton Routledge 2018
Series:Routledge Environmental Humanities Ser
Routledge Environmental Humanities Ser
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Online Access:Volltext
Summary:'Degrowth', a type of 'postgrowth', is becoming a strong political, practical and cultural movement for downscaling and transforming societies beyond capitalist growth and non-capitalist productivism to achieve global sustainability and satisfy everyone's basic needs. This groundbreaking collection on housing for degrowth addresses key challenges of unaffordable, unsustainable and anti-social housing today, including going beyond struggles for a 'right to the city' to a 'right to metabolism', advocating refurbishment versus demolition, and revealing controversies within the degrowth movement on urbanisation, decentralisation and open localism. International case studies show how housing for degrowth is based on sufficiency and conviviality, living a 'one planet lifestyle' with a common ecological footprint. This book explores environmental, cultural and economic housing and planning issues from interdisciplinary perspectives such as urbanism, ecological economics, environmental justice, housing studies and policy, planning studies and policy, sustainability studies, political ecology, social change and degrowth. It will appeal to students and scholars across a wide range of disciplines
Physical Description:1 online resource (297 pages)
ISBN:9781351365239
1351365231
9781351365246
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9781351365222
1351365223
9781315151205
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