“is is a splendid and very readable book on housing and urban planning for degrowth. e degrowth perspective implies a decrease in the social metabolism and an increase in communality and conviviality. ere are many apters on actual types of degrowth housing in many countries and fundamental discussions of top-down versus boom-up urban planning leading to these objectives. is book should become a textbook for courses in aritecture, and urban and rural planning.” Joan Martinez Alier, Emeritus Professor of Economics and Economic History and Senior Researcher at the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology, Autonomous University of Barcelona, and Co-director of the EJAtlas (www.ejatlas.org) “Degrowth is not just a theory — it is practice and it has policy implications. is fantastic collection of new essays shows how a degrowth mindset opens new ways of thinking alternatives and solutions to what is becoming a truly global housing crisis.” Giorgos Kallis, ICREA Research Professor at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, and a co-editor of Degrowth: A Vocabulary for a New Paradigm (2014) “is book brings together astonishingly ri views on sustainable urban development, wholly local but with a global coverage. It fits in with trends away from evermore centralised decision making for growth towards local independence. Decentralised autonomy can halt encroament of global organisations in private life, with communal housing at its core.” Gjalt Huppes, Senior Researcher, Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML) at Leiden University, Netherlands Housing for Degrowth ‘Degrowth’, a type of ‘postgrowth’, is becoming a strong political, practical and cultural movement for downscaling and transforming societies beyond capitalist growth and non-capitalist productivism to aieve global sustainability and satisfy everyone’s basic needs. is ground-breaking collection on housing for degrowth addresses key allenges of unaffordable, unsustainable and anti-social housing today, including going beyond struggles for a ‘right to the city’ to a ‘right to metabolism’, advocating refurbishment versus demolition, and revealing controversies within the degrowth movement on urbanisation, decentralisation and open localism. International case studies show how housing for degrowth is based on sufficiency and conviviality, living a ‘one planet lifestyle’ with a common ecological footprint. is book explores environmental, cultural and economic housing and planning issues from interdisciplinary perspectives su as urbanism, ecological economics, environmental justice, housing studies and policy, planning studies and policy, sustainability studies, political ecology, social ange and degrowth. It will appeal to students and solars across a wide range of disciplines. Anitra Nelson is an activist-solar, Associate Professor in the Centre for Urban Resear at RMIT University, Melbourne (Australia), and author and editor of several books including Small Is Necessary: Shared Living on a Shared Planet (2018) and Life Without Money: Building Fair and Sustainable Economies (ed.) (2011). François Sneider has supported degrowth since 2001. Co-founder of Resear & Degrowth (hp://degrowth.org/) and initiator of degrowth conferences, he is Associate Researer at the Institute of Environmental Science and Tenology (ICTA), Autonomous University of Barcelona. In 2012, he started the experiential project Can Decreix, ‘house of degrowth’ in Catalan. Routledge Environmental Humanities Series editors: Iain McCalman and Libby Robin Editorial Board Christina Alt, St Andrews University, UK Alison Bashford, University of Cambridge, UK Peter Coates, University of Bristol, UK om van Dooren, University of New South Wales, Australia Georgina Endfield, University of Noingham, UK Jodi Frawley, University of Sydney, Australia Andrea Gaynor, e University of Western Australia, Australia Tom Lyn, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, USA Jennifer Newell, American Museum of Natural History, New York, US Simon Pooley, Imperial College London, UK Sandra Swart, Stellenbos University, South Africa Ann Waltner, University of Minnesota, US Paul Warde, University of East Anglia, UK Jessica Weir, University of Western Sydney, Australia International Advisory Board William Beinart, University of Oxford, UK Sarah Buie, Clark University, USA Jane Carruthers, University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa Dipesh Chakrabarty, University of Chicago, USA Paul Holm, Trinity College, Dublin, Republic of Ireland Shen Hou, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China Rob Nixon, Princeton University, Princeton NJ, USA Pauline Phemister, Institute of Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh, UK Deborah Bird Rose, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Sverker Sorlin, KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory, Royal Institute of Tenology, Stoholm, Sweden Helmuth Trisler, Deutses Museum, Muni and Co-Director, Rael Carson Centre, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Germany Mary Evelyn Tuer, Yale University, USA Kirsten Wehner, National Museum of Australia, Canberra, Australia e Routledge Environmental Humanities series is an original and inspiring venture recognising that today’s world agricultural and water crises, ocean pollution and resource depletion, global warming from greenhouse gases, urban sprawl, overpopulation, food insecurity and environmental justice are all crises of culture. e reality of understanding and finding adaptive solutions to our present and future environmental allenges has shied the epicentre of environmental studies away from an exclusively scientific and tenological framework to one that depends on the human-focused disciplines and ideas of the humanities and allied social sciences. We thus welcome book proposals from all humanities and social sciences disciplines for an inclusive and interdisciplinary series. We favour manuscripts aimed at an international readership and wrien in a lively and accessible style. e readership comprises solars and students from the humanities and social sciences and thoughtful readers concerned about the human dimensions of environmental ange. Housing for Degrowth Principles, Models, Challenges and Opportunities Edited by Anitra Nelson and François Sneider First published 2019 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN and by Routledge 711 ird Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2019 selection and editorial maer, Anitra Nelson and François Sneider; individual apters, the contributors. e right of Anitra Nelson and François Sneider to be identified as the authors of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual apters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, meanical, or other means, now known or hereaer invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A catalog record for this book has been requested ISBN: 978-1-138-55805-2 (hbk) ISBN: 978-1-315-15120-5 (ebk) Typeset in Goudy by Apex CoVantage, LLC Contents List of figures List of tables Foreword JOAN MARTINEZ-ALIER Acknowledgements List of abbreviations List of contributors Part I Simple living for all  1 Housing for growth narratives ANITRA NELSON  2 Housing for degrowth narratives FRANÇOIS SCHNEIDER Part II Housing justice  3 From the ‘right to the city’ to the ‘right to metabolism’