{"product_id":"degrowth-in-the-suburbs-samuel-alexander-9789811321306","title":"Degrowth in the Suburbs: A Radical Urban Imaginary","description":"This book addresses a central dilemma of the urban age: how to make the vast suburban landscapes that ring the globe safe and sustainable in the face of planetary ecological crisis. The authors argue that degrowth, a planned contraction of economic overshoot, is the only feasible principle 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 self-limitation. The book offers a radical new urban imaginary, that of degrowth suburbia, which can arise Phoenix like from the increasingly stressed cities of the affluent Global North and guide urbanisation in a world at risk. This means dispensing with much contemporary green thinking, including blind faith in electric vehicles and high-density urbanism, and accepting the inevitability and the benefits of planned energy descent. A radical but necessary vision for the times.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Samuel Alexander,Brendan Gleeson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 9811321302\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9789811321306\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Palgrave MacMillan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/11\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 213\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.93lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.56d","brand":"Samuel Alexander","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48089179750655,"sku":"9789811321306","price":99.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3eb8b906-f377-4bc8-b369-3c7a5442902a.jpg?v=1769108649","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/degrowth-in-the-suburbs-samuel-alexander-9789811321306","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}