'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.
| ISBN: | 9781138558052 |
| Publication date: | 3rd August 2018 |
| Author: | Anitra Nelson, François Schneider |
| Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 288 pages |
| Series: | Routledge Environmental Humanities |
| Genres: |
The environment Environmentally-friendly (‘green’) architecture and design City and town planning: architectural aspects Housing and homelessness Environmental economics Sociology Development studies Urban and municipal planning and policy Building construction and materials Environmental science, engineering and technology Politics and government |