Urbanizing degrowth : five steps towards a radical s-Spatial degrowth agenda for planning in the face of climate emergency
Kaika, Maria (University of Amsterdam)
Varvarousis, Angelos (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Demaria, Federico (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals)
March, Hug (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya)

Date:	2023
Description:	21 pàg.
Abstract:	We call for coupling degrowth with urban studies and planning agendas as an academically salient and politically urgent endeavour. Our aim is threefold: to explore ways for 'operationalising' degrowth concepts into urban and regional everyday spatial practices; to sketch pathways for taking degrowth conceptually and methodologically beyond localised experiments and inform larger scale planning practices and international agendas; and to critically assess the multiple ways in which such a radical urban degrowth agenda will have to differ in the Global North and in the Global South. We outline five steps for such a programmatic, yet paradigmatic, urban degrowth agenda. These are: (1) grounding current degrowth debates within their historical-geographical context; (2) engaging (planning) institutions in linking degrowth practices to urbanisation policies; (3) examining how urban insurgent degrowth alliances can be scaled up without co-optation; (4) focusing on the role of experts and professionals in bringing degrowth principles into everyday urban practice; and (5) prefiguring how degrowth agendas can confront the diverse and unequal urban social relations and uneven outcomes in the Global North and South.
Grants:	European Commission 101094211 European Commission 947713 Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación CEX2019-0940-M
Note:	Unidad de excelencia María de Maeztu CEX2019-000940-M
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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Subject:	Degrowth ; Imaginaries ; Planning ; Postgrowth ; Urban political ecology
Published in:	Urban Studies, Vol. 60, issue 7 (May 2023) , p. 1191-1211, ISSN 1360-063X

DOI: 10.1177/00420980231162234

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