Samuel Alexander

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Degrowth in the Suburbs: A Radical Urban Imaginary (2019)Hardcover - 2019, 11 October 2018

Degrowth in the Suburbs: A Radical Urban Imaginary (2019)
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Print Length
213 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Palgrave MacMillan
Date Published
11 Oct 2018
ISBN-10
9811321302
ISBN-13
9789811321306

Description

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.

Product Details

Authors:
Samuel AlexanderBrendan Gleeson
Book Edition:
2019
Book Format:
Hardcover
Country of Origin:
NL
Date Published:
11 October 2018
Dimensions:
21.01 x 14.81 x 1.42 cm
Genre:
Urban
ISBN-10:
9811321302
ISBN-13:
9789811321306
Language:
English
Location:
Singapore
Pages:
213
Weight:
421.84 gm

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