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Degrowth in the suburbs : a radical urban imaginary
- Title
- Degrowth in the suburbs : a radical urban imaginary / Samuel Alexander, Brendan Gleeson.
- Author
- Alexander, Samuel
- Publication
- [Singapore] : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019]
- ©2019
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Gleeson, Brendan
- Description
- xi, 213 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- 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.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Acknowledgement -- Foreword -- Chapter 1 Reimagining the Suburbs beyond Growth -- Chapter 2 Carbon Suburbia and the Energy Descent Future -- Chapter 3 Light Green Illusions and the 'Blind Field' of Techno-Optimism -- Chapter 4 Resettling Suburbia: A Post-Capitalist Politics 'From Below' -- Chapter 5 Unlearning Abundance: Suburban Practices of Energy Descent -- Chapter 6 Degrowth in the Suburbs: Envisioning a Prosperous Descent -- Chapter 7 Regoverning the City: Policies for a New Economy -- Chapter 8 A New Suburban Condition Dawns -- Index.
- Call Number
- JFD 19-823
- ISBN
- 9811321302
- 9789811321306
- LCCN
- 2018951554
- OCLC
- 1044853959
- Author
- Alexander, Samuel, author.
- Title
- Degrowth in the suburbs : a radical urban imaginary / Samuel Alexander, Brendan Gleeson.
- Publisher
- [Singapore] : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019]
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Gleeson, Brendan, author.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 19-823