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Report • 2014

Häuser erhalten. Räume Eröffnen!

Leerstand bedeutet in vielen Köpfen Stillstand und Abriss. Muss das aber wirklich immer so sein? Wie setzt man Signale von Aufbruch in einst verlorenen Häusern?

Scientific paper • 2014

Degrowth Management for Urban Revision and Neighbourhood Retrofit of Future Calgary

By: Artan Zandian

sustainable degrowth, village life, urban district, shared housing system

Scientific paper • 2013

The Impacts of Spatial Planning on Degrowth

By: Petra Wächter

degrowth; spatial planning; settlement structures

Scientific paper • 2013

Vielfalt statt Gleichwertigkeit - Was Bevölkerungsrückgang für die Versorgung ländlicher Regionen bedeutet

By: Reiner Klingholz, Eva Kuhn

Auf dem Land treibt der demografische Wandel die Kosten für Energie, Abwasser, Straßen, Bildung und ärztliche Versorgung in die Höhe. Und belastet damit immer weniger Einwohner mit immer höheren Ausgaben. Was wiederum verstärkte Abwanderung zur Folge haben kann. Welche Alternativen es zu dieser Entwicklung gibt, hat das Berlin-Institut für Bevölkerung und Entwicklung gemeinsam mit dem Potsdamer...

Scientific paper • 2012

Toward a new sustainable Degrowth: An integrated educational programme for the improvement of traditional earth construction in Emdibir-Gurage-Ethopia

By: Mauro Bertagnin

From the text: . . . Earthen architecture is the most original expression of the human ability to create an appropriate built environment with limited resources and the most sustainable and locally available material”. For these reasons earthen architecture can be considered the most appropriate solution for the housing in a perspective of “prosperity without growth”. . . . Contribution to the...

Scientific paper • 2012

Saving by Sharing – Collective Housing for Sustainable Lifestyles in the Swedish Context

By: Dick Urban Vestbro

Keywords: cohousing, house design, lifestyle, collaborative consumption, neighbourly cooperation

Scientific paper • 2012

Experiences of supportive co-housing communities in “Mondo di Comunità e Famiglia” Association

By: Luigi Giario

From the text: We search for a new lifestyle because we know that living in a communitarian environment which values diversity brings serenity. A fulfilled person is a resource for the entire society. We can say to each other “I can be a resource but I need you to make it happen”. On these bases, the first experiences of housing communities and territorial communities were born. Territory can...

Scientific paper • 2012

Anti-spectacle - a discussion paper -

By: Radović Darko, Davisi Boontharm

From the text: We want to open this discussion by repeating an earlier argument (Radovic 2008b) that there is a need to revisit World City Hypothesis (Friedmann, 1986). We see that as important in the context of the Conference on Degrowth, Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity, as the idea of “world city” implies a certain (kind of) quality, and the concept of degrowth and the idea(l) of...

Scientific paper • 2012

Ecovillages, a social alternative

By: Alfredo Camozzi, Amy Kabat

Introduction: The term “Ecovillage” has had great fortune since it was coined during the convention of sustainable communities held in Denmark, 1991, by the Gaia Foundation. Thanks to the support of important ecological and alternative experiences like that of Findhorn in Scotland, The Farm in the United States, Chrystal Water in Australia, and others, the Global Ecovillage Network(GEN) was...

Presentation • 2012

Combining Efficiency, Sufficiency and Lifestyle Changes: the Case of Zero Energy Buildings

By: Halina Brown

Contribution to the 3rd International Degrowth Conference for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Venice in 2012. - only available as presentation slides

Scientific paper • 2012

The Swedish urban typologies in the city of Karlstad: neighbourhood conceptualizations and typologies for urban development and transformation in the 21 st century

By: Todor Stojanovski

Abstract: Many Swedish as many European cities experienced a similar history of urbanization, architectural styles and planning paradigms. Most of the Swedish neighbourhoods originate or were modified in the 20th century and many of them, often copyrighted by architects and planners, have been preserved as they were designed. The fundamental urban challenge in this century is to find ways of...

Scientific paper • 2010

Cohousing’s relevance to degrowth theories

By: Matthieu Lietaert

Urban design, Degrowth, Cohousing, Intentional Community, Social Movement, Ecovillage

Scientific paper • 2010

The experience of rurban squats in Collserola, Barcelona: what kind of degrowth?

By: Claudio Cattaneo, Marc Gavalda

Rurban squatting, Collserola, Degrowth, Transition in society, Do It Yourself, Alternative economic systems

Position paper • 2010

Change without fear

By: Christer Sanne

Transcription of an oral session by Christer Sanne at the Second International Conference on Economic Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Barcelona on the topic "Growth is unsustainable. Long live degrowth?".

Presentation • 2010

Towards a “third” sector housing in France: symptom of sustainable degrowth?

By: Anne d’Orazio

Transcription of an oral session by Anne d’Orazio at the Second International Conference on Economic Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Barcelona on the topic "Towards a “third” sector housing in France: symptom of sustainable degrowth?".

Presentation • 2010

Saving by Sharing – Collective Housing for Sustainable Lifestyles

By: Dick Urban Vestbro

Presentation and transcription of an oral Session by Dick Urban Vestbro at the Second International Conference on Economic Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Barcelona wit the title "Saving by Sharing – Collective Housing for Sustainable Lifestyles" Save by Sharing from Goteo / Platoniq Saving by Sharing – Collective Housing for Sustainable Lifestyles from...