Degrowth in the Suburbs - A Radical Urban Imaginary (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)

This book addresses a central dilemma of the urban age: how to make the vast suburban landscapes that ring the globe safe and sustainable in the face of planetary ecological crisis. The authors argue that degrowth, a planned contraction of economic overshoot, is the only feasible principle 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 self-limitation. The book offers a radical new urban imaginary, that of degrowth suburbia, which can arise Phoenix like from the increasingly stressed cities of the affluent Global North and guide urbanisation in a world at risk. This means dispensing with much contemporary green thinking, including blind faith in electric vehicles and high-density urbanism, and accepting the inevitability and the benefits of planned energy descent. A radical but necessary vision for the times.

General

Imprint:	Springer Verlag, Singapore
Country of origin:	Singapore
Release date:	October 2018
First published:	2019
Authors:	Samuel Alexander • Brendan Gleeson
Dimensions:	210 x 148 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	213
Edition:	1st ed. 2019
ISBN-13:	978-981-13-2130-6
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > Urban communities Books > Earth & environment > Geography > Human geography > General
LSN:	981-13-2130-2
Barcode:	9789811321306

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