Urban planning and degrowth: a missing dialogue

The Impacts of Spatial Planning on Degrowth

As the current growth economy has created severe environmental pollution and unbalanced distribution of prosperity, there is an increasing amount of critical voices calling for a change. The new concept of degrowth addresses a fundamental change in political, economic and institutional levels underpinning different norms and values towards sustainability. Spatial planning institutions have a de...

Dialogue Systems and Planning

Planning processes are often used in dialogue systems to recognize the intentions conveyed in dialogue. The generation of utterances can also be achieved by a planning/execution mechanism. Some advantages of this kind of mechanism are: knowledge sharing, modular design, declarative description, etc. In this paper, we present some planning mechanisms and the related models enabling the dialogue ...

Degrowth, postdevelopment, and transitions: a preliminary conversation

This paper seeks to initiate a conversation between degrowth (DG) and postdevelopment (PD) frameworks by placing them within the larger field of discourses for ecological and civilizational transitions and by bridging proposals emerging from the North with those from the Global South. Not only can this dialogue, it is argued, be mutually enriching for bothmovements but perhaps essential for an ...

In defence of degrowth

Urban planning, urban Management & Urban Air Pollution and solutions for solving it

In response to the facts that some Asian developing countries were experiencing the fastest rate of industrialisation and urbanisation, several international initiatives called for a better and ‘sustainable’ urban management. Development of management tools including strategic environmental assessment (SEA), life cycle assessment (LCA), cost benefit analysis (CBA), and environmental managemen...