Research and practice for an urban degrowth
The Postgrowth City Coalition is a network of researchers and practitioners advocating urban degrowth.
Together, we create knowledge and practices that reduce cities’ impact on the planet while improving their livability for everybody. We seek to downscale, slow down, and close urban metabolisms in a just and democratic manner. We foster urban justice and ecological regeneration.
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Residential buildings that no longer contribute to environmental destruction, but instead catalyze human and ecological flourishing by helping build communities and reduce the consumption of resources and energy;
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Transport systems that are no longer produced by environmentally destructive machines, but instead prioritize ecological and social sustainability, granting people access to healthy food, care, and meaningful social engagement;
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Institutions that cease fetishizing private property as a right, but instead pursue forms of autonomy and democracy that center on essential needs such as social care, health, meaningful social engagement, and human well-being;
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Planning laws that no longer aim to ensure ever-increasing land values, but instead recognize land’s social value and promote regeneration within ecological limits;
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Ways of providing resources that cease producing carbon, pollution, and waste, but instead foster human health, regenerate ecologies, and are integrated into local communities;
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A societal work ethic that is no longer dominated by competition and individualism, but instead promotes mutual understanding, trust, and compassion, thereby allowing all communities affected by planning decisions to honestly engage with one another.