Full 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.
Contents
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
