"The Northeast corner is where we want to be. Democratic Caring for Nature and Business for Equitable Wellbeing are the desirable outcomes here. But “Autocratic Collapse” and “Tech Bro Capitalism” is closer to where we are now.
Spoiler alert. Those two do not end well."

“Post-growth Futures Report”. It is part of the Models, Assessment, and Policies for Sustainability project funded by the European Union"
https://open.substack.com/pub/degrowthistheanswer/p/what-a-post-growth-future-could-be?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=6hyrf6
#degrowth #postgrowth #postgrowthplanning

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🎙️ 28th podcast episode with Christian Schulz (Luxembourg). 💡 Post-growth planning is: "...an approach to overcome unwanted growth and thus to establish a strong sustainability both in social and environmental terms". ⏩ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/36ZiIlW3KPR4qzUgci8kQM #postgrowthplanning #podcast

🎙️"Within the discipline, there is something going on". Christian Schulz (Luxembourg) on past & present of post-growth planning. Strong sustainability in social and environmental terms. 28th episode 📽️YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtQ6IygH8Ss & Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Website. #postgrowthplanning #podcast
Becoming a Post-Growth Planner #28: Christian Schulz

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🌱 All I want for Christmas is... maybe less growth-bias, fewer growth-obsessions, and more #postgrowthplanning? 🎄☃️ Peaceful Christmas days to everyone and equally to everyone who is not celebrating it 🌍. 📽️ And material for further thoughts: https://www.youtube.com/@postgrowthplan
Post-Growth Planning

Post-Growth Planning: A planning in which growth is neither a necessary starting point to plan nor a goal that must be achieved by means of planning. It works on change but does not set economic growth (especially in GDP terms) or competition among public entities (especially for population and for economic numbers) as its goal. Post-growth planning aims to enhance the quality of life for a diversity of people, but not with more of the same growth solutions. It acts within available resources (including land) and planetary boundaries through a multiplicity of roles to enable a good life for all. To achieve this, critical post-growth planners engage and motivate to take honest, just, and democratic decisions. Starting from open questions in 2016/17, the exploration of #postgrowthplanning continues…

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📻Tuning in for Christmas... 'Becoming a Post-Growth Planner: Obstacles and Challenges to Changing Roles and Practices'. 27 episodes with 29 key thinkers. ▶️ https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIj5wT12qM2aLJpKJ1mFs5AF8EzP1d_zf&si=TlTQytYOKU90mWOB #postgrowthplanning #postgrowth #spatialplanning #podcast
Becoming a post-growth planner: obstacles and challenges to changing roles and practices

The episodes interview inspiring thinkers about contemporary planning and potentials for a transformation towards growth-independent roles and practices. The...

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🌆🏚️What is key in the 'housing crisis'? To which question(s) is the German 'Bau-Turbo' the answer? Questions included in the ZENARiO-Colloquium in Oldenburg yesterday. 💡Open to collective discussion and answers... #postgrowthplanning #postwachstumsplanung #BauTurbo #architects4future
🌱 Monday 8 Dec 16-18 hrs at University of Oldenburg: "Growth-less instead of direction-less – post-growth planning as a democratic offer of courage" (in German) In the ZENARiO Colloquium Series: 🎯 https://uol.de/zenario @postgrowthplan @UniOldenburg #postgrowthplanning
ZENARiO-Kolloqium // Universität Oldenburg

Preparing my guest lecture in Planning Theory for Wednesday (3 Dec) at TU Dortmund University. 🌱 "Sustainability – post-structuralist critiques and post-growth futures". Combining two contemporary debates. Glad coming back with it to Dortmund. #spatialplanning #sustainability #postgrowthplanning
Transport Planning & Post-Growth? Does it work, or not? Which tensions surface, and what are trade-offs to discuss? 'To Transport or Not to Transport: Post-Growth Avenues for Transport Infrastructure Planning' in Journal of Critical Infrastructure Policy 📖 https://doi.org/10.1002/jci3.12035 #postgrowthplanning
🎉 10,000 views for 'The Potential of Post-Growth Planning: Re-Tooling the Planning Profession for Moving beyond Growth' in Planning Theory & Practice (Vol. 24, Issue 2). And recent follow-ups. #postgrowthplanning debates and Futures taking shape. 🌱 Open Access: https://doi.org/10.1080/14649357.2023.2198876
The Potential of Post-Growth Planning: Re-Tooling the Planning Profession for Moving beyond Growth

Published in Planning Theory & Practice (Vol. 24, No. 2, 2023)

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