Degrowth in the Suburbs A Radical Urban Imaginary /

• Κύριοι συγγραφείς: Alexander, Samuel (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Gleeson, Brendan (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2019.
• Θέματα: Sociology, Urban.; Human geography.; Urban Studies/Sociology.; Human Geography.

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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.