Housing for Degrowth: Principles, Models, Challenges and Opportunities

Author:   Anitra Nelson (RMIT University, Australia) ,  François Schneider
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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Pages:   296
Publication Date:   05 July 2019
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Author:   Anitra Nelson (RMIT University, Australia) ,  François Schneider
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.480kg
ISBN:  

9780367358334


ISBN 10:   0367358336
Pages:   296
Publication Date:   05 July 2019
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of 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

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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 Autonoma 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


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 Autonoma 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


Author Information

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.

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