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" Degrowth in the suburbs : "
Samuel Alexander, Brendan Gleeson.
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890105
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Alexander, Samuel
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Degrowth in the suburbs : : a radical urban imaginary /\ Samuel Alexander, Brendan Gleeson.
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Singapore :: Palgrave Macmillan,, [2019]
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, ©2019
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1 online resource.
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9789811321313
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: 9811321310
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9789811321306
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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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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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Anti-environmentalism.
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Suburbs.
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Anti-environmentalism.
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BUSINESS ECONOMICS / Infrastructure.
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Human geography.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.
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Sociology.
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Suburbs.
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363.7
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GE195
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Gleeson, Brendan,1964-
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