| Housing for Degrowth: Principles, Models, Challenges and Opportunities Contributor(s): Nelson, Anitra (Editor), Schneider, François (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1138558052 ISBN-13: 9781138558052 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $171.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Architecture | Urban & Land Use Planning - Architecture | Sustainability & Green Design - Business & Economics | Development - Sustainable Development |
| Dewey: 333.338 |
| LCCN: 2018020326 |
| Series: Routledge Environmental Humanities |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.31 lbs) 296 pages |
| Themes: - Demographic Orientation - Urban - Topical - Ecology |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: '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. |