Samuel Alexander, Brendan Gleeson

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Degrowth in the Suburbs (eBook, PDF)

A Radical Urban Imaginary

Beschreibung

This book addresses a central dilemma of the urban age: how to make suburban landscapes sustainable in the face of planetary ecological crisis. The authors argue that degrowth, a planned contraction of overgrown economies, is the most coherent paradigm for suburban renewal. They depart from the anti-suburban sentiment of much environmentalism to show that existing suburbia can be the centre-ground of transition to a new social dispensation based on the principle of enlightened material and energy restraint.

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Autor

Samuel Alexander is Research Fellow with the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute and lecturer with the Office for Environmental Programs, University of Melbourne, Australia. His books include Prosperous Descent: Crisis as Opportunity in an Age of Limits (2015) and Wild Democracy: Degrowth, Permaculture, and the Simpler Way (2017).

Brendan Gleeson is Director of the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, University of Melbourne, Australia. His books include The Urban Condition (2014) and Australian Heartlands: Making Space for Hope in the Suburbs (2006).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Nature Singapore
• Seitenzahl: 213
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. September 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9789811321313
• Artikelnr.: 54013763

• Verlag: Springer Nature Singapore
• Seitenzahl: 213
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. September 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9789811321313
• Artikelnr.: 54013763