Urban Transformation

About

Working group formed for the International Conference on Degrowth 2014.

What is the relation between cities and rural areas in a degrowth society?

What are the potentials of urban agriculture to supply cities with food?

What are possible conflicts of goals between different degrowth infrastructures in cities?

Papers

S. Abdallah, BRAINPOoL: Lessons from the Beyond GDP world for degrowth, in Fourth International Conference on Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity, Leipzig, 2014.PDF icon jeffrey_beyondGDPIndicatorsForADegrowthTransition_Brainpool.pdf (2.19 MB)PDF icon 3464.pdf (89.04 KB)
A. Acosta, Beyond extractivism: Debates and Practices around Post-Extractivism  in Latin America, in Fourth International Conference on Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity, Leipzig, 2014.PDF icon 3791.pdf (41.08 KB)
A. Acosta, Post-Extracivism and De-Growth: Two Sides of the Same Perspective?, in Fourth International Conference on Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity, Leipzig, 2014.PDF icon 3792.pdf (50.53 KB)
A. Acquarone and Prohias, J. Pàmias, The Foundation Theory, in Fourth International Conference on Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity, Leipzig, 2014.PDF icon 3497.pdf (307.73 KB)
J. - L. Aillon, Guindani, M., Dal Santo, E., Zummo, S., Montis, A., and Pallante, M., How to built, organize and manage degrowth movements rooted in the territory?, in Fourth International Conference on Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity, Leipzig, 2014.PDF icon Aill.pdf (253.23 KB)
R. Aitken, Building a social and ecological economy through a social accounting model of banking, in Fourth International Conference on Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity, Leipzig, 2014.PDF icon 3636.pdf (104.07 KB)
B. Akbulut, Adaman, P. Fikret, Arsel, M., and Avci, D., De-growth as Counter-Hegemony? Lessons from Turkey, in Fourth International Conference on Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity, Leipzig, 2014.PDF icon 3737.pdf (70.75 KB)

Results from Leipzig 2014

Proposal for the Transformation

  • Urban agriculture

  • Promote multifunctional and divers urban centres, including services, infrastructure, food production etc.

  • Promote community owned space

  • participatory urban planning

  • Stop urban sprawl!

Vision

  • develop system of use rights to replace property rights

  • funds for deconstruction

Controversial proposals

  • squat empty building

  • setting resource reduction goals for cities

Open research questions

  • How much living space and outdoor space is necessary per person?

  • How much does the quality of a room influence the necessary space quantity?

Results from Barcelona 2010

Here you can find the results of the GAP at the Degrowth Conference 2010 in Barcelona that are particularly relevant for this working group. More.