Housing for Degrowth (eBook, ePUB)

Principles, Models, Challenges and Opportunities
Redaktion: Nelson, Anitra; Schneider, François

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This collection of diverse responses engages with various challenges posed by housing for degrowth, across both the Global North and South, including housing justice and sufficiency, development and sustainability. Activist-scholar contributors offer practical case studies that engage with theoretical perspectives and provide critiques of various approaches to housing for degrowth.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. September 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351365239
• Artikelnr.: 56833921

Autorenporträt

Anitra Nelson is an activist-scholar, Associate Professor in the Centre for Urban Research at RMIT University, Melbourne (Australia), and author and editor of several books including Small is Necessary: Shared Living on a Shared Planet (2018) and Life Without Money: Building Fair and Sustainable Economies (ed.) (2011). François Schneider has supported degrowth since 2001. Co-founder of Research & Degrowth (http://degrowth.org/) and initiator of degrowth conferences, he is associate researcher at the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA), Autonomous University of Barcelona. In 2012, he started the experiential project Can Decreix, 'house of degrowth' in Catalan.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Joan Martinez-Alier
Part 1 Simple Living for All
1. Housing for growth narratives Anitra Nelson
2. Housing for degrowth narratives François Schneider
Part 2 Housing Justice
3. From the 'Right to the City' to the 'Right to Metabolism' Elisabeth
Skarðhamar Olsen, Marco Orefice and Giovanni Pietrangeli
4. How can squatting contribute to degrowth? Claudio Cattaneo
Part 3 Housing Sufficiency
5. Rethinking home as a node for transition Pernilla Hagbert
6. Framing degrowth: The radical potential of tiny house mobility April
Anson
7. Housing and climate change resilience: Vanuatu Wendy Christie and John
Salong
Part 4 Reducing Demand
8. Christiania: A Poster Child for Degrowth? Natasha Verco
9. Refurbishment vs demolition? Social housing campaigning for degrowth
Mara Ferreri
10. The Simpler Way: Housing, living and settlements Ted Trainer
Part 5 Ecological Housing and Planning
11. Degrowth: A Perspective from Bengaluru, South India Chitra Vishwanath
12. Low impact living: More than a house Jasmine Dale, Robin Marwege and
Anja Humburg
13. Neighbourhoods as the basic module of the global commons Hans Widmer
('P.M.') with Francois Schneider
14. The quality of small dwellings in a neighbourhood context Harpa
Stefansdottir and Jin Xue
Part 6 Whither Urbanisation?
15. Housing for degrowth: Space, planning and distribution Jin Xue
16. Urbanisation as the death of politics: Sketches of degrowth
municipalism Aaron Vansintjan
17. Scale, place and degrowth: Getting from here to 'there' - On Xue and
Vansintjan I Andreas Exner
18. Geography matters: Ideas for a degrowth spatial planning paradigm - On
Xue and Vansintjan II
Karl Krähmer
19. 'Open localism' - On Xue and Vansintjan III François Schneider and
Anitra Nelson
Part 7 Anti-Capitalist Values and Relations
20. Mietshäuser Syndikat: Collective ownership, the 'housing question' and
degrowth Lina Hurlin
21. Non-monetary eco-collaborative living for degrowth Anitra Nelson
22. Summary and research futures for housing for degrowth Anitra Nelson and
François Schneider