​​Cities Beyond Growth: A Six-Week Online Course

Cities Beyond Growth is a six-week online course that invites you to reimagine urban life through the lens of post-growth thinking, an approach that recognises that more GDP doesn’t always mean better lives, especially when it comes at the cost of social equity and ecological survival.

This course is for activists, policymakers, planners, researchers, and all those committed to building cities that prioritise justice, care, and ecological balance.

Date: 8 October 2025 – 12 November 2025

Location: Moodle/ZOOM

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As cities around the world face deepening inequality, intersecting ecological crises, housing precarity, and care systems stretched to their limits, it has become increasingly clear that business-as-usual approaches are no longer viable. At the same time, cities remain fertile ground for bold and systemic transformation.

Cities Beyond Growth is a six-week online course that invites participants to critically engage with post-growth urbanism, an approach that challenges the dominance of GDP growth as a measure of progress and instead centers ecological sustainability, social justice, and collective wellbeing.

Each week, we examine a key domain of urban life including housing, mobility, energy, digitalisation, food, democracy, and care, and ask:
How can essential urban systems be reimagined to serve people and planet, rather than profit and accumulation?

Through real-world examples, policy experimentation, and grounded community practice, the course offers both analytical tools and practical inspiration for those working to reshape cities from below and above.