Summary and research futures for housing for degrowth

Nelson, Anitra; Schneider, Friederich

doi:10.4324/9781315151205-23

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“…Currently, a small research field is investigating the repercussions of degrowth principles on architecture, urban design and planning. Nelson and Schneider (2019: 15) dissect the societal and environmental problem of increasing energy and material throughput into activities associated with the construction and inhabitation of buildings and urban areas. They identify two degrowth principles that can lead the process of reducing energy and material consumption of non-renewable resources like concrete, aluminium and steel: the first is to keep what is (or could potentially be) functional, and the second is to introduce social and low-tech innovations.…”

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“…Vetter (2018) advocates the use of convivial technologies that reduce the material construction throughput. The latter exists implicitly in the sustainable practices of material upcycling and reuse (Gorgolewski, 2017; Stockhammer, 2020); however these often entail the degrading of materials, or require carbon intensive technologies, a problem shared with the use of smart technologies, high-tech construction systems and green building certificates (Nelson and Schneider, 2019: 10; see also De Castro et al, 2017). Other degrowth scholars advocate for the renovation and conversion of buildings through simple means, and for collective uses (Kallis and Vansintjan, 2017: 101).…”

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“… Source : Kallis and Vansintjan (2017), Khmara and Kronenberg (2020), Lehtinen (2018), Nelson and Schneider (2019), Vetter (2018), and Wächter (2013). …”

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“…At the neighbourhood scale, degrowth scholars suggest that the reduction of the urban footprint could take place through the revitalisation of underused urban areas, their de-sealing and their renaturation (Nelson and Schneider, 2019: 14), as well as through urban farming practices (Khmara and Kronenberg, 2020). These strategies should not, however, be used as an accumulation strategy that promotes segregation (Anguelovski et al, 2018).…”

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Beyond urban ecomodernism: How can degrowth-aligned spatial practices enhance urban sustainability transformations

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For spatial practices such as architecture, urban design and planning, degrowth remains an abstract concept, as there is no clear alignment of its principles into spatial strategies. To bridge this gap, this paper examines how degrowth can be operationalised into sustainable spatial practices. Through a review of more than 200 sustainable spatial projects across the world operating at the building, neighbourhood and citywide scales, the paper shows that while the majority of sustainable interventions representative of dominant architecture and urban design culture do not align to degrowth principles, a significant number of examples using sustainability strategies such as convivial technologies, building retrofitting, urban renaturation and revitalisation, eco-urbanisation and spatial infrastructure upgrading are in fact aligned to degrowth principles. We suggest that these examples form a potential stepping-stone to enable an urban design and building culture rooted in a degrowth agenda, however further research and conceptualisation are needed to enable this to happen.

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“… Source : Kallis and Vansintjan (2017), Khmara and Kronenberg (2020), Lehtinen (2018), Nelson and Schneider (2019), Vetter (2018), and Wächter (2013). …”

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Beyond urban ecomodernism: How can degrowth-aligned spatial practices enhance urban sustainability transformations

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“…To combine these goals, it is necessary to look at how housing provision is organised and at its property structures. As many have already argued, it is through the decommodification and collectivisation of housing that particular collectives become able to prefigure a degrowth imaginary (Chatterton and Pusey, 2020; Nelson and Schneider, 2018; Savini, 2021). The provision of shared, self-sufficient, cooperative and ecological housing is profoundly connected with projects of political emancipation and democracy inscribed in intentional communities of solidarity (Jarvis, 2019).…”

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Maintaining autonomy: Urban degrowth and the commoning of housing

Savini

2022

Urban Studies

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The theory – and practice – of establishing autonomy from the hegemony of growth is central to the imaginary of degrowth. Yet to envisage pathways towards a degrowth society, scholars need to explain how autonomy coalesces into autonomous institutions. This article addresses this institutional challenge of how to secure autonomy in the provision of collective, affordable and decommodified housing in cities. Building on the tradition of autonomist and (post-)workerist thought, it conceptualises this challenge as one of maintenance. It argues that autonomy occurs through its perpetual reproduction, which is made possible by nesting and federating practices among autonomous communities. Nesting and federating practices allow these communities to avoid becoming enclaves and co-optation by market logics. The article illustrates these arguments through reference to the struggles of de Nieuwe Meent, a recent housing commoning project in Amsterdam.

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