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By: Schattenblick

Bericht von der Degrowth Konferenz 2014 in Leipzig zu verschiedenen Veranstaltungen zum Thema Mobilität mit Sabine Leidig, Patrick Kayemba, Winfried Wolf, Maggie Klingler-Lauer und Bernhard Knierim. Aus dem Bericht: . . . Wie diese Schlaglichter aus der Diskussion des Panels zeigen, umfaßt der Widerstand gegen die herrschende Verkehrsweise ein breites Spektrum zwischen unmittelbar umsetzbaren ...

By: Artan Zandian

sustainable degrowth, village life, urban district, shared housing system

By: Daniel Kunle, Holger Lauinger

Leerstand bedeutet in vielen Köpfen Stillstand und Abriss. Muss das aber wirklich immer so sein? Wie setzt man Signale von Aufbruch in einst verlorenen Häusern?

By: Sabine Leidig, Maggie Klingler-Lauer, Patrick Kayemba, Winfried Wolf

Panel discussion at the the 4th International Degrowth Conference for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Leipzig in 2014. Speakers: Maggie Klingler-Lauer, Patrick Kayemba, Winfried Wolf Facilitation: Jan Urhahn From the conference programme: Today individual mobility is organized mainly to benefit transnational companies. Consequences are the destruction of the climate and t...

By: Jeremy Heighway

This media entry is a stirring paper of the Group Assembly Process (GAP) at the Degrowth Conference in Leipzig in 2014. This paper belongs the group Urban Transformation.

By: Benjamin Best

This media entry is a stirring paper of the Group Assembly Process (GAP) at the Degrowth Conference in Leipzig in 2014. This paper belongs the group Urban Transformation.

By: Antje Manteuffel

This media entry is a stirring paper of the Group Assembly Process (GAP) at the Degrowth Conference in Leipzig in 2014. This paper belongs the group Urban Transformation.

By: Degrowth Conference Leipzig 2014

Results from the GAP (Group Assembly Process) Group Urban Transformation at the Degrowth Conference in Leipzig 2014 Proposals for the Transformation > Urban agriculture > Promote multifunctional and divers urban centres, including services, infrastructure, food production etc. > Promote community owned space > participatory urban planning > Stop urban sprawl! Vision &...

By: Degrowth Conference Leipzig 2014

Results from the GAP (Group Assembly Process) Group Transport and Mobility at the Degrowth Conference in Leipzig 2014 Proposals for the Transformation > Making car transport less attractive (parking fees, speed limits, access limits, gas prices...) > Improve quality / quantity of public transport (right to access infrastructure and services) > Decrease prices of public transport ...

By: Dorothee Quade

society-space relations, geography

By: Ammalia Podlaszewska

Tourism, place-making, economic growth, commodification, locality

By: Christiane Richard-Elsner

Children Play Urban planning Autonomy

By: Christiane Richard-Elsner

Learning, own experiences, neurobiology, neighbourhood

By: Dieter Rink, Annegret Haase, Sigrun Kabisch, Katrin Großmann

Abstract: Shrinking cities have spread out on all continents since the end of the last century and have become a normal type of urban development. For the post-growth perspective the question is being asked, and if yes, what can be learned from nowadays shrinking cities for the urban development in the future? One can observe that the biggest number of shrinking cities try to pursue growth stra...

By: Fernando Palma, Licenciado Eduardo Josué Pérez

Abstract: The increase in population and the steady exodus to the big cities, is a typical manifestation of modern cultural globalization based on the mobility of capital and workers in the capitalist mode of production. Every day more numerous human nuclei that are installed in cities and transforming them into great metropolises mega cities where they hope to find better job opportunities wit...

By: Lukasz Pancewicz

Abstract: Despite relatively mild effects of the world financial and economic crisis on Central and Eastern European cities, in the long run they face similar challenges that its western counterparts - falling birthrates and ageing populations, growing pressure of global economic competition that push for lower wages and increasing job insecurity as well as significant environmental challenges....

By: Orlando Eleazar Moreno, Guadalupe García

Abstract: At the present moment the capitalist development, the big cities have done the transformation of their economical dinamism, specially as a consequence of the industrialization due to the capitalist accumulation which have restructured the world economy and restablished territories. In Mexico it is expressed in the metropolization. Therefore, the objetive of this work is to analyse the...

By: Enrique Ortega, Sayoko Nakajima

Abstract: The ecological footprint method proposed by Merkel (2009) was used to calculate the support area related a population consumption profile in Ibiúna county, São Paulo state in Brazil. It was verified that when family income grows the support area becomes greater. The excessive consumption of products that are not primary necessities and wealthy lifestyle which leads some families to oc...

By: Alfred Burballa Noria

Abstract: Infrastructure and urban projects in advanced capitalist societies have been contested by opposing movements for years mostly at a local and regional scale. However, the last years have seen the emergence of opposing movements which have become of national or even international concern and now seek to constitute alliances at an international level. By analysing 22 infrastructure and u...

By: Alexander Stumm, Henry Anderson

Abstract: In the last years architectural interventions in urban space have shown their potential both on a social and a aesthetic level. The vertical urban garden is a multi-storey garden for the community, a meeting-point in the city, a space for cultural activities and recreation. The construction is based on the possibilities of the scaffolding system, is easy and cost-efficently to assembl...