Post-growth geographies : spatial relations of diverse and alternative economies / Bastian Lange [and 3 others] (eds.).

Includes bibliographical references.

I. Spaces of Perspective .-- Using socio-spatial concepts of situatedness to explain work processes in the context of post-growth economies .-- Spatial strategies for a post-growth transformation .-- Reducing working hours in small enterprises as a post-growth practice? .-- Lessons from Practice.-- The emancipatory project of degrowth.-- Degrowth A kind of pragmatic utopian thinking, re-politicising humanistic debates.-- II. Spaces of Possibility.-- Growth independence through social innovations? An analysis of potential growth effects of social innovations in a Swiss mountain region .-- Criteria for post-growth residential development: The example of the city of Zurich .-- Makerspaces Third places for a sustainable (post-growth) society? .-- Performing gaps The relationship between alternative economies and urban planning in Dortmund .-- Town and countryside in flux The significance of urban functions for the vitality of rural areas and the importance of individual and systemic solutions for the realisation of a growth-critical way of life Lessons from Practice .-- The role of interstitial spaces in the growing urban region of Hamburg .-- ‘Hobbyhimmel’ – an open workshop in the context of post-growth .-- Neighbourhood farms as new places for participation and grow-your-own .-- III. Spaces of Conflict .-- Provincialising degrowth Alternatives to development and the Global South .-- Financing post-growth? Green financial products for changed logics of production .-- ‘Status quo avant-gardists’ and ‘prevention innovators’ Food for thought for the geographical post-growth debate .-- The growth fixation of the European Union A commentary on the draft Green Deal. Lessons from Practice .-- We have a responsibility to a be a bit more pragmatic .-- We should continue this dialogue with the EU institutions .-- IV. Spaces of Design .-- Spatial transformations: Process, goal, guideline? .-- Cornerstones and positions of a precautionary post-growth economy The end of the model of growing prosperity .-- New roles in collective, growth-independent spatial organization .-- The Bauhaus as a designer of transition Post-growth approaches in East Germany after reunification – between false growth and unwanted non-growth. Lessons from Practice .-- Post-growth perspectives for the Lausitz lignite mining region? – Opportunities and challenges .-- Hacking Ulm Open data, digital literacy and coding as practices creating space in the city .-- Designing living spaces together in open-ended approaches Participation in spatial development for a good life .-- Opening up spaces of possibility with artistic experiments .

Post-Growth Geographies examines the spatial relations of diverse and alternative economies between growth-oriented institutions and multiple socio-ecological crises. The book brings together conceptual and empirical contributions from geography and its neighbouring disciplines and offers different perspectives on the possibilities, demands and critiques of post-growth transformation. Through case studies and interviews, the contributions combine voices from activism, civil society, planning and politics with current theoretical debates on socio-ecological transformation.