City & Crumpets Hikmat Jamal

Episode Notes
Links:

Decoupling Debunked, report on the impossibility of Sustainable Development:
https://eeb.org/library/decoupling-debunked/
Research&Degrowth Network, based in Barcelona:
https://degrowth.org/
International Degrowth Network:
https://www.degrowth.info/en/
Degrowth in Movement(s), about the connections between degrowth and other
movements:
https://www.degrowth.info/en/dim/degrowth-in-movements/

References:

Degrowh overviews:
D’Alisa, Giacomo, Federico Demaria, and Giorgos Kallis, eds. 2015.
Degrowth : A Vocabulary for a New Era. Abingdon: Routledge.
https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203796146.

Demaria, Federico, Francois Schneider, Filka Sekulova, and Joan
Martinez-Alier. 2013. ‘What Is Degrowth? From an Activist Slogan to a Social
Movement’. Environmental Values 22 (2): 191–215.
https://doi.org/10.3197/096327113X13581561725194.

Kothari, Ashish, Federico Demaria, and Alberto Acosta. 2014. ‘Buen Vivir,
Degrowth and Ecological Swaraj: Alternatives to Sustainable Development and
the Green Economy’. Development 57 (3–4): 362–75.
https://doi.org/10.1057/dev.2015.24.

Latouche, Serge. 2010. ‘Degrowth’. Journal of Cleaner Production 18 (6):
519–22. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2010.02.003.

Schneider, François, Giorgos Kallis, and Joan Martinez-Alier. 2010. ‘Crisis
or Opportunity? Economic Degrowth for Social Equity and Ecological
Sustainability. Introduction to This Special Issue’. Journal of Cleaner
Production 18 (6): 511–18. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2010.01.014.

Degrowth and Cities:
Alexander, Sam, and Brendan Gleeson. 2019. Degrowth in the Suburbs - A
Radical Urban Imaginary. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Bohnenberger, Katharina. 2020. ‘Can “Sufficiency” Reconcile Social and
Environmental Goals? A Q-Methodological Analysis of German Housing Policy’.
Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, July.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10901-020-09762-4.

Demaria, Federico, Giorgos Kallis, and Karen Bakker. 2019. ‘Geographies of
Degrowth: Nowtopias, Resurgences and the Decolonization of Imaginaries and
Places’. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space 2 (3): 431–50.
https://doi.org/10.1177/2514848619869689.

Gerber, Julien-François. 2020. ‘Degrowth and Critical Agrarian Studies’. The
Journal of Peasant Studies 47 (2): 235–64.
https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2019.1695601.

Kallis, Giorgos, and Hug March. 2015. ‘Imaginaries of Hope: The Utopianism
of Degrowth’. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 105 (2):
360–68. https://doi.org/10.1080/00045608.2014.973803.

Krähmer, Karl. 2020. ‘Are Green Cities Sustainable? A Degrowth Critique of
Sustainable Urban Development in Copenhagen’. European Planning Studies 0
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Latouche, Serge. 2016. ‘Degrowth as a Territorial-Landscape Project’.
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Liegey, Vincent, Stéphaine Madelaine, Christophe Ondet, and Anisabel
Veillot. 2016. ‘Neither Protectionism nor Neoliberalism but “Open
Relocalization”, the Basis for a New International’. Projet-Decroissance.Net
(blog). 2 January 2016. http://www.projet-decroissance.net/?p=2125.

March, Hug. 2018. ‘The Smart City and Other ICT-Led Techno-Imaginaries: Any
Room for Dialogue with Degrowth?’ Journal of Cleaner Production 197:
1694–1703.

Mocca, Elisabetta. 2020. ‘The Local Dimension in the Degrowth Literature. A
Critical Discussion’. Journal of Political Ideologies 25 (1): 78–93.

Nelson, Anitra, and François Schneider. 2018. Housing for Degrowth:
Principles, Models, Challenges and Opportunities. Abingdon: Routledge.

Nirmal, Padini, and Dianne Rocheleau. 2019. ‘Decolonizing Degrowth in the
Post-Development Convergence: Questions, Experiences, and Proposals from Two
Indigenous Territories’. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space 2 (3):
465–92. https://doi.org/10.1177/2514848618819478.

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Paul Taylor, Executive Director of FoodshareTO (foodshare.net) talks food insecurity, poverty, and possible solutions like a basic income.

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Tim Gray (@CanadaGray) joins the podcast to talk about urban sprawl in the context of the GTHA and Canada. We discuss the causes and incentives for sprawl and what it means for the environment, health, and quality of life. You can read more of Tim's work at environmentaldefence.ca.

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I talk to David Kuperman about the King St Transit Priority Corridor (www.toronto.ca/kingstreetpilot). We discuss the history of the pilot, its initial reception, the results, and lessons we can take from the pilot towards transit policy elsewhere.

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Host Hikmat Jamal sits down with author, journalist, and lecturer Shawn Micallef to discuss the cancellation of Sidewalk Labs' Toronto Waterfront project. We talk the future of private cities and the accompanying issues of accessibility and equity they raise.

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