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Access knowledge on postgrowth cities

Research on and action for postgrowth cities is ongoing. On this page you can access publications on postgrowth cities and urban degrowth. Many of these works are produced by members of the Postgrowth City Coalition. Here you can find links to the original platforms on which these writings have been published.

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• Transport innovations in the cracks: reading for potential post-growth transport and mobilities with Deleuze and Guattari

  By Elisa Schramm, Javier Lloveras & Mario Pansera in Local Environment.

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• From an “Imperial Mode of Living” to a “Caring Commons"

  Chapter by Anitra Nelson, in Post-Carbon Inclusion: Transitions Built on Justice (edited by Ralph Horne, Aimee Ambrose, Gordon Walker and Anitra Nelson).

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• Pre-figurative hybrids for post-carbon inclusion

  Chapter by Anitra Nelson, in Post-Carbon Inclusion: Transitions Built on Justice (edited by Ralph Horne, Aimee Ambrose, Gordon Walker and Anitra Nelson).

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• Property and values: the affordability, accessibility, and autonomy of collaborative housing

  By Mirte Jepma, Federico Savini and Alessandro Coppola in International Journal of Housing Policy.

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• What if there were a moratorium on new housebuilding? An exploratory study with London-based housing associations

  By Anna Pagani, Alex Macmillan, Federico Savini, Michael Davies, and Nici Zimmermann.

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• The comfortable endurance of sustainable practices: values, affect and community dynamics in Catalan eco-communities

  By Elisa Schramm, published in Cultural Geographies.

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• Marx, work, agency and postcapitalist prefiguration

  By Anitra Nelson, published in Human Geography.

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• Amsterdam’s circular economy at a world-ecological crossroads: postcapitalist degrowth or the next regime of capital accumulation?

  By Matthew Thompson, Charlotte Cator, David Beel, Ian Rees Jones, Martin Jones and Kevin Morgan, published in Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society.

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• Strategic planning for degrowth: what, who, how

  How to build a strategy that, from the grassroots, makes degrowth mainstream in cities. By Federico Savini, published in Planning Theory.

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• Problematising degrowth strategising: On the role of compromise, material interests, and coercion

  by Richard Bärnthaler, published in Ecological Economics.

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• "Upwind Despite Headwind? Degrowth Transformations Amidst Shrinkage and Eroding Democracy in an East German Small Town"

  By Anton Brokow-Loga (Bauhaus University of Weimar) and Frank Eckardt (Bauhaus University of Weimar).

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• Special Issue on "Urban Shrinkage, Degrowth, and Sustainability: How do they connect in Urban Planning?"

  A special issue from the journal ‘Urban Planning,’ co-edited by Marco Bontje (University of Amsterdam), Joop de Kraker (Maastricht University / Open University), and Christian Scholl (Maastricht University).

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• (Path)ways to sustainable living: The impact of the SLIM scenarios on long-term emissions Author links open overlay panel

  By Nicole J. van den Berg, Andries F. Hof, Vanessa Timmer, Lewis Akenji and Detlef P. van Vuuren, 2024.

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• Degrowth and food system transformation: a workshop toolkit

  By Julia Spanier, Jacob Smessaert, Leonie Guerrero Lara, Guilherme Raj and Laura van Oers, University of Utrecht

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• Degrowth as a Concept and Practice: Introduction

  By Anitra Nelson, 2024.

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• How entropy drives us towards degrowth

  By Crelis Rammelt, 2024.

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• Urban Degrowth

  Urban Degrowth by Benedikt Schmid, 2024.
  In De Gruyter Handbook of Degrowth, edited by Lauren Eastwood and Kai Heron, 2024.

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• URBAN ECOLOGICAL FUTURES: Five Eco-Community Strategies for more Sustainable and Equitable Cities

  By Jenny Pickerill, Tendai chitewere, natasha cornea, Joshua lockyer, rachel Macrorie, Jan Malý Blažek and anitra nelson, 2024.

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• A one‑sided love affair? On the potential for a coalition between degrowth and community‑supported agriculture in Germany

  By Julia Spanier, Leonie Guerrero Lara and Giuseppe Feola, 2023.

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• Anarchism and degrowth : deepening degrowth’s engagement with autonomous movements

  By AKC Collective, 2023.

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• Assessment of ecological capacity for urban planning and improving resilience in the European framework: an approach based on the Spanish case

  By Rafael Córdoba Hernández and Federico Camerin, 2023.

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• BiPEDAL – ‘The (bi)cycle and its educative potential’. Uses of (bi)cycles as forms of participation in the educating city

  By Vera Diogo, 2023.

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• Cities and urbanism beyond growth. Ecological transition: where is it going? Ecology, economics, and urban planning between European green deal and post-growth paradigms

  By Barbara Pizzo, Angela Barbanente and Silvio Cristiano, 2023.

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• Collective memories, place-framing and the politics of imaginary futures in sustainability transitions and transformation

  By Giuseppe Feola, Michael Goodman, Jaime Suzunaga and Jenny Soler, 2023.

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• Consumption: the elephant in the room: Understanding, changing, and reducing consumption for sustainability

  By Ana Poças, 2023.

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• Degrowth is coming to town: What can it learn from critical perspectives on urban transport?

  By Wojciech Kębłowski, 2023.

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• Designing a New Civic Economy? On the Emergence and Contradictions of Participatory Experimental Urbanism

  By Matthew Thompson and Colin Lorne, 2023.

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• Discovering the diverse economy of a ‘left-behind’ town

  By Yvonne Rydin, 2023.

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• Examining the role of minor experiments in French and Catalan eco- communities: Between critique and post-capitalist world-building

  Elisa Schramm, 2023.

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• Futures of the social metabolism: Degrowth, circular economy and the value of waste

  Federico Savini, 2023.

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• Green Gentrification, Social Justice, and Climate Change in the Literature: Conceptual Origins and Future Directions

  By Roberta Cucca, Michael Friesenecker and Thomas Thaler, 2023.

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• Growthism in Irish Spatial Planning in an Age of Limits: Towards a Transformative Post-Growth Praxis

  By Gavin Daly, 2023.

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• Housing Financialization and the State, in and Beyond Southern Europe: A Conceptual and Operational Framework

  By Simone Tulumello and Myrto Dagkouli-Kyriakoglou, 2023.

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• How 15-min City, Tactical Urbanism, and Superblock Concepts Are Affecting Major Cities in the Post-Covid-19 Era?

  By Luca Maria Francesco Fabris, Federico Camerin, Gerardo Semprebon and Riccardo Maria Balzarotti, 2023.

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• How Context Matters: Challenges of Localizing Participatory Budgeting for Climate Change Adaptation in Vienna

  By Byeongsun Ahn, Michael Friesenecker, Yuri Kazepov and Jana Brandl, 2023.

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• How to Save the City A Guide for Emergency Action

  By Paul Chatterton, 2023.

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• Impacts of meeting minimum access on critical earth systems amidst the Great Inequality

  By Crelis F. Rammelt, Joyeeta Gupta, Diana Liverman, Joeri Scholtens, Daniel Ciobanu, Jesse F. Abrams, Xuemei Bai, Lauren Gifford, Christopher Gordon, Margot Hurlbert, Cristina Y. A. Inoue, Lisa Jacobson, Steven J. Lade, Timothy M. Lenton, David I. Armstrong McKay, Nebojsa Nakicenovic, Chukwumerije Okereke, Ilona M. Otto, Laura M. Pereira, Klaudia Prodani, Johan Rockström, Ben Stewart-Koster, Peter H. Verburg and Caroline Zimm, 2023.

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• Interlinking the silos: How to stimulate a new debate on more greenery in cities

  By Mina Di Marino, Roberta Cucca, Thomas Thaler and Marianne Bügelmayer-Blaschek, 2023.

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• La Sostenibilidad no es un problema tecnológico

  By Sofía Greaves, 2023.

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• Learning through housing activism in Barcelona: knowledge production and sharing in neighbourhood-based housing groups

  By Mateus Lira and Hug March, 2023.

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• Mobility values in a finite world: pathways beyond austerianism?

  Kim Carlotta von Schönfeld and António Ferreira, 2023.

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• Politicising proximity: Radical municipalism as a strategy in crisis

  Laura Roth, Bertie Russell and Matthew Thompson, 2023.

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• Post-growth municipalism: exploring the scalar constitution, strategic relevance, and legal viability of the municipal scale for tackling growth dependencies

  By Benedikt Schmid, 2023.

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• Post-Growth, Degrowth, the Doughnut, and Circular Economy: A Short Guide for Policymakers

  By Federico Savini, 2023.

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• Postcapitalist Planning and Urban Revolution

  By Matthew Thompson and Yousaf Nishat-Botero, 2023.

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• Potentials of Climate Emergency Declarations for degrowth transformations. The ambivalent stance of German municipalities in conflicts over a post-fossil future

  By Anton Brokow-Loga and Timmo Krüger, 2023.

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• Prosperity Beyond Growth: An Emerging Agenda for European Cities

  By Ben Rogers, Nuno F. da Cruz, Francesco Ripa and Imogen Hamilton-Jones, 2023.

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• Recommoning water: Crossing thresholds under citizen-driven remunicipalisation

  By Dona Geagea, Maria Kaika and Jampel Dell’Angelo, 2023.

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• Redefining success in organizing towards degrowth

  By Filka Sekulova, Isabelle Anguelovski and Lucía Argüelles, 2023.

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• Social Justice in the Green City

  By Roberta Cucca and Thomas Thaler, 2023.

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• Sustainable circular cities? Analysing urban circular economy policies in Amsterdam, Glasgow, and Copenhagen

  By Martin Calisto Friant, Katie Reid, Peppi Boesler, Walter J. V. Vermeulen and Roberta Salomone, 2023.

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• Sustainable Living in Systems Change: A holistic approach to model lifestyle changes in Integrated Assessment Models

  By Nicole Jane van den Berg, 2023.

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• The next 30 years: planning cities beyond mobility?

  By Luca Bertolini, 2023.

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• The Political Ecology of Informal Waste Recyclers in India

  By Federico Demaria with a preface by Joan Martinez-Alier, 2023.

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• The Potential of Post-Growth Planning: Re-Tooling the Planning Profession for Moving beyond Growth

  By Daniel Durrant, Christian Lamker and Yvonne Rydin, 2023.

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• The struggle for problematising housing (in Italy) Reflections from Naples, Turin and beyond

  By Simone Tulumello, 2023.

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• Towards a Sustainable Welfare System? The Challenges and Scenarios of Eco-social Transitions

  By Roberta Cucca, Yuri Kazepov and Matteo Villa, 2023.

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• Towards Urban Degrowth? Urban Planning as a Common Thread of Contradictory Dynamics in Cities

  By Ibai de Juan Ayuso, Carmen Hidalgo Giralt and Antonio Palacios García, 2023.

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• Transforming work: A critical literature review on degrowth, post-growth, postcapitalism and craft labor

  By Olga Vincent and Amanda Brandellero

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• Transition to a Sustainable Circular Society: More than Just Resource Efficiency

  By Martin Calisto Friant, Walter J. V. Vermeulen and Roberta Salomone, 2023.

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• Urban Food Commoning: Implications and Opportunities for Amsterdam

  By Ciska Ulug, Ying-Tzu Lin and Jannes Willems, 2023.

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• Urban Governance in Post-pandemic Barcelona: A Superblock-Based New Normal?

  By Federico Camerin, 2023.

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• Urban impacts of Spain 1982 and Italy 1990 FIFA World Cup: a comparative analysis with more recent sports mega-events

  By Federico Camerin and Davide Longato, 2023.

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• Urbanizing degrowth: Five steps towards a Radical Spatial Degrowth Agenda for planning in the face of climate emergency

  Maria Kaika, Angelos Varvarousis, Federico Demaria and Hug March, 2023.

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• What Can Degrowth Bring To Food System Transformation Beyond Capitalism?

  By Jacob Smessaert and Julia Spanier, 2023.

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• Whatever happened to municipal radicalism?

  By Matthew Thompson, 2023.

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• A Polanyi-inspired perspective on social-ecological transformations of cities

  By Richard Bärnthaler, Andreas Novy & Basil Stadelmann

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• An economy in the making: Negotiating capitalist and beyond-capitalist ontologies and relations in makerspaces

  By Olga Vincent, 2022.

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• Beyond collective property: a typology of collaborative housing in Europe

  Emma Jo Griffith, Mirte Jepma & Federico Savini, 2022.

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• Beyond (against?) urban gardens

  By Donatella Gasparro, 2022.

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• Community climate resilience and environmental education: Opportunities and challenges for transformative learning

  By Isabel Ruiz-Mallén, Mar Satorras, Hug March and Francesc Baró, 2022.

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• Deep Experimentation: An Ethnographic Inquiry into the Haus der Statistik in Berlin

  By Patrick Léon Gross, 2022.

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• Degrowth and agri‐food systems: a research agenda for the critical social sciences

  By Leonie Guerrero Lara, Laura van Oers, Jacob Smessaert, Julia Spanier, Guilherme Raj and Giuseppe Feola1, 2022.

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• Degrowth and the city Multiscalar strategies for the socio-ecological transformation of space and place

  By Karl Krähmer, 2022.

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• Eco-social enterprises: ethical business in a post-socialist context

  By Nadia Johanisova, Lucie Sovová and Eva Fraňková, 2022.

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• Housing commons as a degrowth planning practice: Learning from Amsterdam's de Nieuwe Meent

  By Federico Savini and Daan Bossuyt, 2022.

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• Land in the Anarchist Tradition

  By Andrej Grubačić, Julien-François Gerber and Andro Rilović, 2022.

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• Liminal Commons Modern Rituals of Transition in Greece

  By Angelos Varvarousis, 2022.

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• Maintaining autonomy: Urban degrowth and the commoning of housing

  Federico Savini, 2022.

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• Money for everything? Universal basic income in a crisis

  By Matthew Thompson, 2022.

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• Placing the Foundational Economy: An emerging discourse for post-neoliberal economic development

  By Bertie Russell, David Beel, Ian Rees Jones and Martin Jones, 2022.

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• Pool yourself together: Sufficiency and interdependence in the wake of a degrowth future

  by Jere Kuzmanic, 2022.

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• Post-Growth Planning Cities Beyond the Market Economy

  Edited By Federico Savini, António Ferreira and Kim von Schönfeld, 2022.

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• Postcapitalist practices and human, economic, and cultural geographies

  By Anitra Nelson, 2022.

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• Spatialising degrowth, degrowing urban planning

  By Jin Xue and Wojciech Kębłowski, 2022.

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• Strategies for a new municipalism: Public–common partnerships against the new enclosures

  By Bertie Russell, Keir Milburn and Kai Heron, 2022.

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• Strategies of socio-ecological transition for a sustainable urban metabolism

  By Dario Padovan, Silvio Cristiano and Francesco Gonella, 2022.

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• The Anarchist Strain of Planning History

  By José Luis Oyón and Jere Kuzmanić, 2022.

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• The end of postsocialism (as we knew it): Diverse economies and the East

  By Ottavia Cima and Lucie Sovová, 2022.

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• The Making(s) of an Alternative Urban Policy: What Happens When Free Fares Come to Town?

  By Wojciech Kębłowski, 2022.

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• The psychoanalytic critique of capitalism: Elements for an overview

  By Julien-François Gerber, 2022.

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• Uitgewoond

  By Cody Hochstenbach, 2022.

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• Urban planning and degrowth: a missing dialogue

  By Jin Xue, 2022.

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• Anarchy and the 15-minute city: The birth of an intimate relationship with the urban space

  By Jere Kuzmanic, 2021.

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• Are green cities sustainable? A degrowth critique of sustainable urban development in Copenhagen

  By Karl Krähmer, 2021.

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• Fragile alliances: Municipalism and the commons in Amsterdam

  By Imogen Hamilton-Jones and Tomas de Groot, 2021.

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• Growing the Beautiful Anthropocene: Ethics of Care in East European Food Gardens

  By Lucie Sovová, Petr Jehlička and Petr Daněk, 2021.

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• Koniec ery domków z ogródkiem?

  By Izabela Mironowicz, 2021. Translated title “The end of the era of houses with a garden?”

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• Los van groei: diepgewortelde duurzaamheid voor de planologie?

  By Kim Carlotta von Schönfeld en Jannes Willems, 2021.

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• Planting Possibilities: the contribution of community-based food collectives to food system sustainability

  By Ciska Ulug, 2021.

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• Politics for the solidarity-based post-growth city

  In Franzini, Lucian; Herzog, Roland; Rutz, Simon; Ryser, Franziska; Ziltener, Kathrin; Zwicky, Pascal (Ed.): Post-Walkdom? Current debates about fundamental social change. DenkNetz Yearbook 2021. pp. 169-176.

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• Possible Beyond Plausible: Reimagining Ourselves and Our Cities

  By Olivia Bina and Lavinia Pereira, In “Planning Just Futures” Edited by Marisa A. Zapata and Lisa K. Bates, 2021.

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• Potential and limitations of innovative housing solutions in planning for degrowth: the case of Vienna

  Roberta Cucca and Michael Friesenecker, 2021.

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• The Death and Life of Private Landlordism: How Financialized Homeownership Gave Birth to the Buy-To-Let Market

  By Manuel B. Aalbers, Cody Hochstenbach, Jelke Bosma and Rodrigo Fernandez, 2021.

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• The limits of the loops: critical environmental politics and the Circular Economy

  By Kersty Hobson, 2021.

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• Towards an urban degrowth: Habitability, finity and polycentric autonomism

  By Federico Savini, 2021.

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• Urban Planning and European Innovation Policy: Achieving Sustainability, Social Inclusion, and Economic Growth?

  By Kim Carlotta von Schönfeld and António Ferreira, 2021.

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• ‘It’s not really about the food, it’s also about food’: urban collective action, the community economy and autonomous food systems at the Groningen Free Café

  By Ciska Ulug and Elen-Maarja Trellm, 2020.

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• A typology of circular economy discourses: Navigating the diverse visions of a contested paradigm

  By Martin Calisto Frianta, Walter J.V. Vermeulena and Roberta Salomoneb, 2020.

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• Beyond techno-utopia and its discontents: On the role of utopianism and speculative fiction in shaping alternatives to the smart city imaginary

  By Olivia Bina, Andy Inch and Lavínia Pereira, 2020.

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• Care, commoning and collectivity: from grand domestic revolution to urban transformation

  By Oona Morrow and Brenda Parker, 2020.

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• Creating careful circularities: Community composting in New York City

  By Oona Morrow and Anna Davies, 2020.

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• Degrowth and critical agrarian studies

  By Julien-François Gerber, 2020.

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• Degrowth and the State

  By Giacomo D’Alisa and Giorgos Kallis, 2020.

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• Exploring degrowth

  By Vincent Liegey and Anitra Nelson, 2020.

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• Greening Vienna. The Multi-Level Interplay of Urban Environmental Policy–Making

  By Elisabetta Mocca, Michael Friesenecker and Yuri Kazepov, 2020.

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• Interlacing Planning and Degrowth Scholarship A Manifesto for an Interdisciplinary Alliance

  By António Ferreira and Kim Carlotta von Schönfeld, 2020.

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• Making Transformative Geographies Lessons from Stuttgart's Community Economy

  By Benedikt Schmid, 2020.

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• Sustainability Assessment of Urban Agriculture

  By Giuseppe Feola, Marlyne Sahakian and Claudia Binder, 2020.

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• The Spiralling Economy: Connecting Marxian Theory with Ecological Economics

  By Crelis F. Rammelt, 2020.

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• Transcending Dilemmas in Urban Policy-Making: Envisioning versus Adapting, Growing versus Stabilizing

  By António Ferreira, Joana Ribeiro-Santos and Isabel Breda-Vázquez, 2020.

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• Why Post-Growth City?

  By Anton Brokow-Loga and Frank Eckardt, 2020.

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• “All transport problems are essentially mathematical”: The uneven resonance of academic transport and mobility knowledge in Brussels

  By Wojciech Kębłowski and David Bassens, 2017.

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• Beyond the Local Trap: New Municipalism and the Rise of the Fearless Cities

  By Bertie Russell, 2019.

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• Changing societies through urban commons transitions

  Michel Bauwens and Vasilis Niaros, 2017.

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• Commoning mobility: Towards a new politics of mobility transitions

  By Anna Nikolaeva, Peter Adey, Tim Cresswell, Jane Yeonjae Lee, Andre Nóvoa and Cristina Temenos, 2018.

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• Degrowth

  By Giacomo D’Alisa, 2019.

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• Degrowth: A Vocabulary for a New Era

  Edited by Giacomo D’Alisa, Federico Demaria and Giorgos Kallis, 2014.

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• Galtung meets Daly: A framework for addressing inequity in ecological economics

  By Crelis F. Rammelt and Jan Boes, 2013.

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• Housing — And Planning — For Degrowth

  By Anitra Nelson, 2018.

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• Housing for Degrowth Principles, Models, Challenges and Opportunities

  By Anitra Nelson and François Schneider, 2019.

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• Immotility as resilience? A key consideration for transport policy and research

  By Antonio Ferreira, Luca Bertolini and Petter Næss, 2017.

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• Introducing a Taxonomy of the “Smart City”: Towards a Commons-Oriented Approach?

  Vasilis Niaros, 2016.

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• Is eco-village/urban village the future of a degrowth society? An urban planner's perspective Author links open overlay panel

  Jin Xue, 2014.

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• Promoting Waste Degrowth and Environmental Justice at a Local Level: The Case of Unit-Pricing Schemes in Spain

  By Gabriel Weber, Ignazio Cabras, Maria Calaf-Forn, Ignasi Puig-Ventosa and Giacomo D’Alisa, 2019.

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• Sharing food and risk in Berlin’s urban food commons

  By Oona Morrow, 2019.

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• Small is Necessary: Shared Living on a Shared Planet

  By Anitra Nelson, 2018.

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• Smart contradictions: The politics of making Barcelona a Self-sufficient city

  By Hug March and Ramon Ribera-Fumaz, 2016.

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• Success and failure of grassroots innovations for addressing climate change: The case of the Transition Movement

  By Giuseppe Feola and Richard Nunes, 2013.

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• The Bioregional Economy Land, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness

  By Molly Scott Cato, 2013.

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• The dynamics of financial instability: simplifying Keen’s Goodwin–Minsky model

  By Crelis F. Rammelt, 2019.

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• The Unexpected Consequences of Sustainability. Green Cities Between Innovation and Ecogentrification

  By Roberta Cucca, 2012.

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• Unbundling property in Boston’s urban food commons

  By Oona Morrow and Deborah G. Martin, 2019.

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• Unlocking Sustainable Cities: A Manifesto for Real Change

  By Paul Chatterton, 2019.

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• Welfare state and ecological crisis: action-research perspectives towards sustainable social policies

  By Matteo Villa, 2019.

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