TRACK 01: POSTGROWTH

The current IPCC report clarifies that the window for achieving the necessary transformation and transition towards a climate-resilient development closes. At the same time, doubts about the justice, sustainability and future viability of our growth model are growing in the IPCC and the current report 'Earth for All' for the Club of Rome (September 2022). 

Attempts such as the Global Agenda 2030 or the EU’s Green Deal to combine ecological and social aspects aim for appropriate economic growth while decoupling economic growth and environmental destruction. 

The so-called post-growth economy, the doughnut economy, the common good economy and similar concepts attempt to show alternatives to the conventional growth model that can enrich urban and spatial planning. 

We need climate-resilient development to achieve social sustainability goals and sustainable urban and regional development. 

We welcome theoretical, methodological, and empirical contributions that address the following questions (and more):. 

• How can ideas from the post-growth debate help to understand current crises and find answers? 
• Which social and economic risks areassociated with this?

For this track, we invite – academic or practice - papers reflecting on related issues, mobilising facts and figures, bringing examples to the discussion, and tracing out potential future states of things from all corners of the globe. 

In addition, we invite papers that start 'dreaming' again. It is not a dream that builds castles in the clouds, a leisurely and idle exercise of compensatory nature. The educated dreaming (docta spes, Ernst Bloch) is bound to "teach desire, to desire better, to desire more, and above all to desire differently" (Thompson, 1977, p. 330). 

Such a dreamscape of desires may provide the disruptive force that breaks through cultured routines and establishes other worlds and different development models.

Keywords: risks, alternative visions, dreamscapes, development model, post-growth, post-growth economy, doughnut economy, common good economy

1. Federico Savini - Instituting post-growth planning: urban-rural-industrial conflicts in the Amsterdam city-region
2. Simona R Gradinaru - Conflicting interests between local governments and the European target of No Net Land Take
3. Emma Griffith - An ideological critique of a degrowth (circular) metabolism
4. Xin Li - Urban Planning in the Post-Growth Era: Insights from World Bank Indicators
5. Sophie Sturup - Beyond individualism; what’s there and how do we get to it?
6. Izabela Mironowicz: From post-war modernisation to the ideal of the future: the large housing estates in the perspective of degrowth.

1. Federica Fiacco - Energy-Dependent Urban Densification Towards A New Strategic Development Model In Sub-Saharan Africa
2. Stefania Fiorentino - Bringing The ‘Foundational Economy’ From Theory To Practice In Wales.
3. Javier Martinez - Redefining Urban Prosperity: A 'Getting Wiser' Approach For Just And Sustainable Urban Development
4. Matteo Basso - Food Beyond Growth. European Territories Of Agri-Food Production Between Patrimonialisation And Sustainability
5. Imogen Hamilton-Jones - Towards Post-Growth Cities: The Cultural Politics Of Mobility Transitions In Tower Hamlets, London

1. Iulian Barba Lata: Narrating postgrowth through infrastructures of curatorship
2. Siwei Peng: Research on Rural Revitalization Planning from the Perspective of Ecological Capitalization: Taking Nuanshui Township as an Example
3. Stefan Verweij: Post-Growth in Dutch Transport Infrastructure Planning: An Exploration of Instruments and Practices within Rijkswaterstaat
4. Agnes Förster: Resource-based inner-city redevelopment after Corona: Actors, alliances, and urban scenes
5. Alessandro Bonifazi: Territorial planning and local energy transitions in Italy: missing links and future prospects
6. Giulia Luciani: Nature Is (Not) Democratic. Notes For A Community-Based Approach To Natural Resources

1. Peter Ache: European Spatial Visions - charting new pathways for a post-growth Europe?
2. Johanna Waldenberger: Planning the post-growth city: the urban-non-urban divide and the problematic position of the bioregion
3. Baptiste Colin: Seeing further, seeing brighter: seeing bigger. Storytelling for the Grande Porte des Alpes (the Great Alps Gate) of the Lyon Metropolis
4. Deike Peters: Rethinking ‘Ruhrbanity’ – Green-Blue Dreamscapes and Regional Renaturalization in Germany’s Former Industrial Heartland in Comparative Perspective
5. Laura Silva: Away from the cities? A medium-to-long-term investigation of how Covid-19 pandemic has changed population spatial patterns in Italy

1. Antonio Raciti - Post-Growth as a Process? Building Housing Movements toward Diverse Housing Planning: Lessons from Gloucester, Massachusetts, USA
2. Christian Lamker - Sustainability Struggles in Land-Use Planning from a Post-Growth Planning Perspective: Critical Junctures towards Net Zero
3. Besmira Dyca - Closing the accountability gap: Benchmarking Companies for Sustainable Urban Land Management
4. Ondřej Slach - De-growth approaches in a pro-growth-oriented shrinking city. An oxymoron or inevitable future path?
5. Wei Wei - From Howard’s Garden City Movement to Zero-Carbon New Towns in the postgrowth era: The case of new town development in the context of carbon neutrality of Shanghai
6. Geert Te Boveldt: Towards A Method For Infrastructure Decision Making From A Post-Growth Perspective

1. Karen Waneska de Jesus - Green building development and degrowth: addressing the Global South gap
2. Astrid Krisch - Accelerating transformative urban change through eco-social innovations
3. Chiara Pisano et al - What Practices To Overcome The “Cultural Remoteness” Of Inner Peripheries? A Focus On Italian Case Studies
4. Chiara Mazzarella - Experimental Temporality in the Post-Growth City: Assessing the complex social values produced by urban nomads
5. Karin Holmstrand - Planning beyond growth: a case study of wellbeing-oriented planning in Wales and Cornwall
6. Jiajing Huang - The social issues during the De-danwei reform in Daqing (in the Northeast of China) within the post-growth era

1. Jinyi Wang - Distribution Characteristics and Influencing Factors of Invisible Consumption Space: A Case Study of Nanjing Old City
2. Dongdong Chen - Micro-Intervention as a New Approach for Urban Regeneration in Metropolises: A Case Study in Beijing
3. Sachi Abe - Shrinking without degrowth: Growth-oriented shrinkage in the case of Japanese cities
4. Marcela Maria Riva de Monti - Tokyo. The opportunities of shrinkange and post-growth
5. Raphaël Languillon - Tokyo Olympics in the mature context of late capitalism
6. Zhiqiang Wu - Spatial Distribution and Functional Configuration of Industry 4.0 Enterprises: A Case Study of Germany