We call for coupling degrowth with urban studies and planning agendas as an academically salient ... more We call for coupling degrowth with urban studies and planning agendas as an academically salient and politically urgent endeavour. Our aim is threefold: to explore ways for 'operationalising' degrowth concepts into urban and regional everyday spatial practices; to sketch pathways for taking degrowth conceptually and methodologically beyond localised experiments and inform larger scale planning practices and international agendas; and to critically assess the multiple ways in which such a radical urban degrowth agenda will have to differ in the Global North and in the Global South. We outline five steps for such a programmatic, yet paradigmatic, urban degrowth agenda. These are: (1) grounding current degrowth debates within their historical-geographical context; (2) engaging (planning) institutions in linking degrowth practices to urbanisation policies; (3) examining how urban insurgent degrowth alliances can be scaled up without co-optation; (4) focusing on the role of experts and professionals in bringing degrowth principles into everyday urban practice; and (5) prefiguring how degrowth agendas can confront the diverse and unequal urban social relations and uneven outcomes in the Global North and South. This special issue brings together scholars from the fields of degrowth, urban planning, architecture, housing, mobility, urban history, geography, and urban political ecology, who all address empirically and theoretically the same key research question: how can we harvest, scale up, and institutionalise the potential of localised degrowth practices in order to transform the future of extensive urbanisation under a climate crisis emergency? The special issue’s geographical coverage spans the Global South and the Global North, with case studies from the Philippines (Metro Manilla), Estonia (Tallinn), China (Chengdu), France (Aubagne), the Netherlands (Amsterdam), Argentina (Buenos Aires), England and Wales.
We call for coupling degrowth with urban studies and planning agendas as an academically salient ... more We call for coupling degrowth with urban studies and planning agendas as an academically salient and politically urgent endeavour. Our aim is threefold: to explore ways for 'operationalising' degrowth concepts into urban and regional everyday spatial practices; to sketch pathways for taking degrowth conceptually and methodologically beyond localised experiments and inform larger scale planning practices and international agendas; and to critically assess the multiple ways in which such a radical urban degrowth agenda will have to differ in the Global North and in the Global South. We outline five steps for such a programmatic, yet paradigmatic, urban degrowth agenda. These are: (1) grounding current degrowth debates within their historical-geographical context; (2) engaging (planning) institutions in linking degrowth practices to urbanisation policies; (3) examining how urban insurgent degrowth alliances can be scaled up without co-optation; (4) focusing on the role of experts and professionals in bringing degrowth principles into everyday urban practice; and (5) prefiguring how degrowth agendas can confront the diverse and unequal urban social relations and uneven outcomes in the Global North and South. This special issue brings together scholars from the fields of degrowth, urban planning, architecture, housing, mobility, urban history, geography, and urban political ecology, who all address empirically and theoretically the same key research question: how can we harvest, scale up, and institutionalise the potential of localised degrowth practices in order to transform the future of extensive urbanisation under a climate crisis emergency? The special issue’s geographical coverage spans the Global South and the Global North, with case studies from the Philippines (Metro Manilla), Estonia (Tallinn), China (Chengdu), France (Aubagne), the Netherlands (Amsterdam), Argentina (Buenos Aires), England and Wales.
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This special issue brings together scholars from the fields of degrowth, urban planning, architecture, housing, mobility, urban history, geography, and urban political ecology, who all address empirically and theoretically the same key research question: how can we harvest, scale up, and institutionalise the potential of localised degrowth practices in order to transform the future of extensive urbanisation under a climate crisis emergency? The special issue’s geographical coverage spans the Global South and the Global North, with case studies from the Philippines (Metro Manilla), Estonia (Tallinn), China (Chengdu), France (Aubagne), the Netherlands (Amsterdam), Argentina (Buenos Aires), England and Wales.
This special issue brings together scholars from the fields of degrowth, urban planning, architecture, housing, mobility, urban history, geography, and urban political ecology, who all address empirically and theoretically the same key research question: how can we harvest, scale up, and institutionalise the potential of localised degrowth practices in order to transform the future of extensive urbanisation under a climate crisis emergency? The special issue’s geographical coverage spans the Global South and the Global North, with case studies from the Philippines (Metro Manilla), Estonia (Tallinn), China (Chengdu), France (Aubagne), the Netherlands (Amsterdam), Argentina (Buenos Aires), England and Wales.