9789811347368-9811347360-Degrowth in the Suburbs: A Radical Urban Imaginary

Degrowth in the Suburbs: A Radical Urban Imaginary

ISBN-13: 9789811347368
ISBN-10: 9811347360
Edition: Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2019
Author: Samuel Alexander, Brendan Gleeson
Publication date: 2018
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Format: Paperback 224 pages
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ISBN-13: 9789811347368
ISBN-10: 9811347360
Edition: Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2019
Author: Samuel Alexander, Brendan Gleeson
Publication date: 2018
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Format: Paperback 224 pages

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Degrowth in the Suburbs: A Radical Urban Imaginary (ISBN-13: 9789811347368 and ISBN-10: 9811347360), written by authors Samuel Alexander, Brendan Gleeson, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2018. With an overall rating of 3.6 stars, it's a notable title among other Human Geography (Social Sciences) books. You can easily purchase or rent Degrowth in the Suburbs: A Radical Urban Imaginary (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Human Geography books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

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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.

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