Post-Growth Planning

<p>This book draws on a wide range of conceptual and empirical materials to identify and examine planning and policy approaches that move beyond the imperative of perpetual economic growth. It sketches out a path towards planning theories and practices that can break the cyclical process of urban expansion crises and recovery that negatively affect ecosystems and human lives.</p><p>To reduce the dramatic social and environmental impact of urbanization this book offers both a critique of growth-led urban development and a prefiguration of ecologically regenerative and socially just ways of organizing cities and regions. It uncovers emerging possibilities for post-growth planning in the fields of collective housing mobility urban commoning ecological land-use urban–rural symbiosis and alternative planning worldviews. It provides a toolkit of concepts and real-life examples for urban scholars urbanists activists architects and designers seeking to make cities prosper within planetary boundaries.</p><p>This book speaks to both experts and beginners in post-growth thinking. It concludes with a manifesto and glossary of key terms for urban scholars students and practitioners.</p>