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This collection of diverse responses engages with various challenges posed by housing for degrowth, across both the Global North and South, including housing justice and sufficiency, development and sustainability. Activist-scholar contributors offer practical case studies that engage with theoretical perspectives and provide critiques of various approaches to housing for degrowth.
Sommario
Foreword Joan Martinez-Alier
Part 1 Simple Living for All
1. Housing for growth narratives Anitra Nelson
2. Housing for degrowth narratives François Schneider
Part 2 Housing Justice
3. From the ‘Right to the City’ to the ‘Right to Metabolism’ Elisabeth Skarðhamar Olsen, Marco Orefice and Giovanni Pietrangeli
4. How can squatting contribute to degrowth? Claudio Cattaneo
Part 3 Housing Sufficiency
5. Rethinking home as a node for transition Pernilla Hagbert
6. Framing degrowth: The radical potential of tiny house mobility April Anson
7. Housing and climate change resilience: Vanuatu Wendy Christie and John Salong
Part 4 Reducing Demand
8. Christiania: A Poster Child for Degrowth? Natasha Verco
9. Refurbishment vs demolition? Social housing campaigning for degrowth Mara Ferreri
10. The Simpler Way: Housing, living and settlements Ted Trainer
Part 5 Ecological Housing and Planning
11. Degrowth: A Perspective from Bengaluru, South India Chitra Vishwanath
12. Low impact living: More than a house Jasmine Dale, Robin Marwege and Anja Humburg
13. Neighbourhoods as the basic module of the global commons Hans Widmer (‘P.M.’) with Francois Schneider
14. The quality of small dwellings in a neighbourhood context Harpa Stefansdottir and Jin Xue
Part 6 Whither Urbanisation?
15. Housing for degrowth: Space, planning and distribution Jin Xue
16. Urbanisation as the death of politics: Sketches of degrowth municipalism Aaron Vansintjan
17. Scale, place and degrowth: Getting from here to ‘there’ — On Xue and Vansintjan I Andreas Exner
18. Geography matters: Ideas for a degrowth spatial planning paradigm — On Xue and Vansintjan II
Karl Krähmer
19. ‘Open localism’ — On Xue and Vansintjan III François Schneider and Anitra Nelson
Part 7 Anti-Capitalist Values and Relations
20. Mietshäuser Syndikat: Collective ownership, the ‘housing question’ and degrowth Lina Hurlin
21. Non-monetary eco-collaborative living for degrowth Anitra Nelson
22. Summary and research futures for housing for degrowth Anitra Nelson and François Schneider
Info autore
Anitra Nelson is an activist-scholar, Associate Professor in the Centre for Urban Research at RMIT University, Melbourne (Australia), and author and editor of several books including Small is Necessary: Shared Living on a Shared Planet (2018) and Life Without Money: Building Fair and Sustainable Economies (ed.) (2011).
François Schneider has supported degrowth since 2001. Co-founder of Research & Degrowth (http://degrowth.org/) and initiator of degrowth conferences, he is associate researcher at the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA), Autonomous University of Barcelona. In 2012, he started the experiential project Can Decreix, 'house of degrowth' in Catalan.
Riassunto
This collection of diverse responses engages with various challenges posed by housing for degrowth, across both the Global North and South, including housing justice and sufficiency, development and sustainability. Activist-scholar contributors offer practical case studies that engage with theoretical perspectives and provide critiques of various approaches to housing for degrowth.
Testo aggiuntivo
"This is a splendid and very readable book on housing and urban planning for degrowth. The degrowth perspective implies a decrease in the social metabolism and an increase in communality and conviviality. There are many chapters on actual types of degrowth housing in many countries and fundamental discussions of top-down versus bottom-up urban planning leading to these objectives. This book should become a textbook for courses in architecture, and urban and rural planning." — Joan Martinez Alier, Emeritus Professor of Economics and Economic History and Senior Researcher at ICTA, Autonomous University of Barcelona, and Co-director of the EJAtlas (www.ejatlas.org)
"Degrowth is not just a theory — it is practice and it has policy implications. This fantastic collection of new essays shows how a degrowth mindset opens new ways of thinking alternatives and solutions to what is becoming a truly global housing crisis." — Giorgos Kallis, ICREA Research Professor at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, and a co-editor of Degrowth: A Vocabulary for a New Paradigm (2014)
"This book brings together astonishingly rich views on sustainable urban development, wholly local but with a global coverage. It fits in with trends away from evermore centralised decision making for growth towards local independence. Decentralised autonomy can halt encroachment of global organisations in private life, with communal housing at its core." — Gjalt Huppes, Senior Researcher, Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML) at Leiden University, Netherlands
