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Autore |
Alexander Samuel |
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Titolo |
Degrowth in the Suburbs [[electronic resource] ] : A Radical Urban Imaginary / / by Samuel Alexander, Brendan Gleeson |
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Singapore : , : Springer Singapore : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2019 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed. 2019.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (219 pages) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Sociology, Urban |
Human geography |
Urban Studies/Sociology |
Human Geography |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Acknowledgement -- Foreword -- Chapter 1 Reimagining the Suburbs beyond Growth -- Chapter 2 Carbon Suburbia and the Energy Descent Future -- Chapter 3 Light Green Illusions and the ‘Blind Field’ of Techno-Optimism -- Chapter 4 Resettling Suburbia: A Post-Capitalist Politics ‘From Below’ -- Chapter 5 Unlearning Abundance: Suburban Practices of Energy Descent -- Chapter 6 Degrowth in the Suburbs: Envisioning a Prosperous Descent -- Chapter 7 Regoverning the City: Policies for a New Economy -- Chapter 8 A New Suburban Condition Dawns -- Index. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This book addresses a central dilemma of the urban age: how to make suburban landscapes sustainable in the face of planetary ecological crisis. The authors argue that degrowth, a planned contraction of overgrown economies, is the most coherent paradigm 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 enlightened material and energy restraint. |
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