Housing for degrowth : principles, models, challenges and opportunities / edited by Anitra Nelson and François Schneider.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nelson, Anitra, editor.

Schneider, François, 1967- editor.

Series:

Routledge environmental humanities

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Housing policy.

Sustainable development.

Housing rehabilitation.

Communal living.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 272 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.

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 edgrowth. It will appeal to students and scholars across a wide range of disciplines"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Foreword / Joan Martinez-Alier

Housing for growth narratives / Anitra Nelson

Housing for degrowth narratives / François Schneider

From the "right to the city" to the "right to metabolism" / Elisabeth Skarðhamar Olsen, Marco Orefice and Giovanni Pietrangeli

How can squatting contribute to degrowth? / Claudio Cattaneo

Rethinking home as a node for transition / Pernilla Hagbert

Framing degrowth : the radical potential of tiny house mobility / April Anson

Housing and climate change resilience : Vanuatu / Wendy Christie and John Salong

Christiania : a poster child for degrowth? / Natasha Verco

Refurbishment vs demolition? Social housing campaigning for degrowth / Mara Ferreri

The simpler way : housing, living and settlements / Ted Trainer

Degrowth : a perspective from Bengaluru, South India / Chitra Vishwanath

Low impact living : more than a house / Jasmine Dale, Robin Marwege and Anja Humburg

Neighbourhoods as the basic module of the global commons / Hans Widmer ("P.M.") with François Schneider

The quality of small dwellings in a neighbourhood context / Harpa Stefansdottir and Jin Xue

Housing for degrowth : space, planning and distribution / Jin Xue

Urbanisation as the death of politics : sketches of degrowth municipalism / Aaron Vansintjan

Scale, place and degrowth : getting from here to "there" : on Xue and Vansintjan I / Andreas Exner

Geography matters : ideas for a degrowth spatial planning paradigm : on Xue and Vansintjan II / Karl Krähmer

"Open localism" : on Xue and Vansintjan III / François Schneider and Anitra Nelson

Mietshäuser Syndikat : collective ownership, the "housing question" and degrowth / Lina Hurlin

Non-monetary eco-collaborative living for degrowth / Anitra Nelson

Summary and research futures for housing for degrowth / Anitra Nelson and François Schneider.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Housing for degrowth

ISBN:

9781138558052

1138558052

OCLC:

1043054420