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> <p><strong>Part 1 Beginning</strong> 1 Uncoupling Planning and Economic Growth: Towards Post-Growth Urban Principles: An Introduction 2 When Greening is Not Degrowth: Cost-Shifting Insights <b>Part 2 Dwelling </b>3 Housing Commons as a Degrowth Planning Practice: Learning from Amsterdam’s De Nieuwe Meent 4 Dwelling Beyond Growth: Negotiating the State, Mutualism and Commons <b>Part 3 Moving </b>5 Individual Well-Being beyond Mobility Growth? 6 Beyond the Rule of Growth in the Transport Sector: Towards "Clumsy Mobility Solutions"? <b>Part 4 Governing </b>7 The City as a Commons: Diffused Governance for Social and Ecological Reproduction 8 Hacking the Legal: The Commons between the Governance Paradigm and Inspirations Drawn from the "Living History" of Collective Land Use <b>Part 5 Regulating </b>9 Planning beyond the Backwash of a Growth Node: Old and New Thinking in Cambridgeshire, England and Skåne, Sweden 10 Planning Law and Post-Growth Transformation <b>Part 6 Nurturing </b>11 Nurturing the Post-Growth City: Bringing the Rural Back in 12 Towards a Post-Growth Food System: The Community as a Cornerstone? Lessons from Two Amsterdam Community-Led Food Initiatives <b>Part 7 Being </b>13 Becoming a Post-Growth Planner: Inner Obstacles to Changing Roles 14 Once Upon a Planet: Planning for Transition from Ego-Driven to Eco-Driven Economies <b>Part 8 Envisioning </b>15 A Manifesto for Post-Growth Planning 16 A Glossary of and for Post-Growth Planning </p>