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Housing for degrowth

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: Routledge, 2019Description: xxiv, 272 p. ill. 24 cm.ISBN:
  • 9780367350680
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Contents:
Part 1 Simple Living for All 1. Housing for growth narratives-- 2. Housing for degrowth narratives-- -- Part 2 Housing Justice-- 3. From the 'Right to the City' to the 'Right to Metabolism'-- 4. How can squatting contribute to degrowth?-- -- Part 3 Housing Sufficiency-- 5. Rethinking home as a node for transition-- 6. Framing degrowth: The radical potential of tiny house mobility-- 7. Housing and climate change resilience: Vanuatu-- -- Part 4 Reducing Demand-- 8. Christiania: A Poster Child for Degrowth?-- 9. Refurbishment vs demolition? Social housing campaigning for degrowth-- 10. The Simpler Way: Housing, living and settlements-- -- Part 5 Ecological Housing and Planning-- 11. Degrowth: A Perspective from Bengaluru, South India-- 12. Low impact living: More than a house-- 13. Neighbourhoods as the basic module of the global commons-- 14. The quality of small dwellings in a neighbourhood context-- -- Part 6 Whither Urbanisation?-- 15. Housing for degrowth: Space, planning and distribution-- 16. Urbanisation as the death of politics: Sketches of degrowth municipalism-- 17. Scale, place and degrowth: Getting from here to 'there' - On Xue and Vansintjan I-- 18. Geography matters: Ideas for a degrowth spatial planning paradigm - On Xue and Vansintjan II-- 19. 'Open localism' - On Xue and Vansintjan III-- -- Part 7 Anti-Capitalist Values and Relations-- 20. Mietshäuser Syndikat: Collective ownership, the 'housing question' and degrowth-- 21. Non-monetary eco-collaborative living for degrowth-- 22. Summary and research futures for housing for degrowth--
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.
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Part 1 Simple Living for All 1. Housing for growth narratives-- 2. Housing for degrowth narratives-- -- Part 2 Housing Justice-- 3. From the 'Right to the City' to the 'Right to Metabolism'-- 4. How can squatting contribute to degrowth?-- -- Part 3 Housing Sufficiency-- 5. Rethinking home as a node for transition-- 6. Framing degrowth: The radical potential of tiny house mobility-- 7. Housing and climate change resilience: Vanuatu-- -- Part 4 Reducing Demand-- 8. Christiania: A Poster Child for Degrowth?-- 9. Refurbishment vs demolition? Social housing campaigning for degrowth-- 10. The Simpler Way: Housing, living and settlements-- -- Part 5 Ecological Housing and Planning-- 11. Degrowth: A Perspective from Bengaluru, South India-- 12. Low impact living: More than a house-- 13. Neighbourhoods as the basic module of the global commons-- 14. The quality of small dwellings in a neighbourhood context-- -- Part 6 Whither Urbanisation?-- 15. Housing for degrowth: Space, planning and distribution-- 16. Urbanisation as the death of politics: Sketches of degrowth municipalism-- 17. Scale, place and degrowth: Getting from here to 'there' - On Xue and Vansintjan I-- 18. Geography matters: Ideas for a degrowth spatial planning paradigm - On Xue and Vansintjan II-- 19. 'Open localism' - On Xue and Vansintjan III-- -- Part 7 Anti-Capitalist Values and Relations-- 20. Mietshäuser Syndikat: Collective ownership, the 'housing question' and degrowth-- 21. Non-monetary eco-collaborative living for degrowth-- 22. Summary and research futures for housing for degrowth--

'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.

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