Being a post-growth planner: Recent Episodes
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We interview planners to find answers on the way to become post-growth planners. We aim to dive into the challenge to imagine different spatial futures, and the courage to work for making them happen. How would you describe a (typical) today's planner (as an individual being)? Why is it important to understand what hinders planners to think in a post-growth direction? What inspiration does your work offer for planning practitioners? What would you advise a planner today to take the courage to use post-growth thinking?
Episode #34 of “Becoming a post-growth planner: obstacles and challenges to changing roles and practices” with Dr Julia Grosinger (ICTA-UAB, Barcelona, Spain). In conversation with Dr Christian Lamker (University of Groningen, the Netherlands)."Post-growth planning is not happening on the grid; it's something which happens in the mindsets of people". Discussing spatial, social, and emotional aspects of degrowth in rural areas throughout Europe. Understanding 'the backbone of human survival' and distinct narratives and experiences in rural areas and small municipalities. Identifying loved keystone places in participatory methods, walking interviews, and arts-based research. Highlighting the role of planned and unplanned spaces for meeting and fulfilling human needs for identity, leisure, and participation. Beyond romanticising degrowth to understanding values like care, conviviality, and solidarity, in rural contexts and connecting to existing social and physical infrastructures - "because we cannot go back the way we came from".
Becoming a Post-Growth Planner #33: Matthias Kranke & Malcolm Campbell-VerduynEpisode #33 of “Becoming a post-growth planner: obstacles and challenges to changing roles and practices” with Dr Matthias Kranke (College for the Social Sciences and Humanities of the University Alliance Ruhr/University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany) and Dr Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn (University of Groningen, the Netherlands). In conversation with Dr Christian Lamker (University of Groningen, the Netherlands)."You can't get beyond growth without really getting inside of it". Working through roads, ports, rails, and accounting and between growth and post-growth infrastructures. Moving the focal point from policy towards materiality and the realities of existing infrastructures. Reflecting on a special issue on post-growth infrastructures and several workshops. Criticising how infrastructures can facilitate 'ever more everything' (growth, consumption, production), and opening pathways in different spaces and places. Further extending thinking into bitcoins, crypto currencies, and ecological accounting. Finishing with the need for more political debates on infrastructures and how to take socio-material relations seriously to avoid post-growth planning as being myopic and failing to see infrastructures.
Episode #32 of “Becoming a post-growth planner: obstacles and challenges to changing roles and practices” with Dr Anna Pagani (King's College London, United Kingdom). In conversation with Dr Christian Lamker (University of Groningen, the Netherlands)."We cannot think of any future if we do not think about housing!". Work with systems thinking and degrowth through housing markets in the United Kingdom. Pondering on housing as a basic need and experiences with housing associations and discussing a moratorium on new housebuilding. Challenging narratives around the housing crisis and the idea that building new means building better. Identifying leverage points for change and intervention in the housing system. Explaining perceptions of power (discursive, instrumental, structural) and organising packages of solutions by knowing about co-benefits and unintended consequences. Explaining the development, tensions, and intended uses of the 'Manifesto for housing in a post-growth world' for spatial planners today and tomorrow. Calling to action because "post-growth planning is a collective activity of mutual learning, and this mutual learning must be informed by a systems approach".
Episode #31 of “Becoming a post-growth planner: obstacles and challenges to changing roles and practices” with Alejandro del Castillo Sánchez (Architect, n'UNDO, Spain/Colombia). In conversation with Dr Christian Lamker (University of Groningen, the Netherlands)."It's completely possible". Doing, undoing, and redoing. How do we change that big paradigm of architecture: building is growing, growing is welfare, and it's also progress and happiness? Discussing the intersection between architecture, territory and eco-social transition. Connecting post-growth theory to realities in architecture and tourism development along the Mediterranean coastline in Spain. Exploring the scope and the edges of (growth-based) architecture over 15 years to find new ways of bringing value to the territory. Using systems thinking to identify sweet spots between system change, action, and interventions. Learning from real sustainability transformations that are already working. In the end: "Post-growth planning is applying an approach that prioritizes the reduction of territorial and material metabolism, promotes the restoration of ecological functionality, and the reconfiguration of social and spatial systems through an eco-centric paradigm, mainly by undoing rather than producing the built environment."
Episode #30 of “Becoming a post-growth planner: obstacles and challenges to changing roles and practices” with Dr Anitra Nelson (University of Melbourne, Australia). In conversation with Dr Christian Lamker (University of Groningen, the Netherlands). "Post-growth plannng is opening a debate and action on a social and material transformation to a more equitable and just relation between us and between us and earth". Talking about the work on the 'Routledge Handbook of Degrowth' (published in 2025) and looking back and forward on history and futures of degrowth, post-growth, and housing. Focusing on horizontalism and explicit and implicit horizontal approaches in the degrowth movement. Explaining experiences with eco-collaborative housing communities and intentional collective housing. Uncovering conflicts and tensions between degrowth and cities, as well as showing prefigurative examples therein. How might we plan for mare sharing, caring, and commoning?
Episode #29 of “Becoming a post-growth planner: obstacles and challenges to changing roles and practices” with Dr Sofia Greaves (Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway). In conversation with Dr Christian Lamker (University of Groningen, the Netherlands)."Post-Growth Planning is in need of creative methods for collectively imagining new futures". Reflecting on experiences with artists and arts-based methods in Thamesmead, London. Pondering on the question how art can be a form of research, of generating new narratives and stories, and a contribution to community-building. Working through tensions within artists and dangers of artwashing. Delving into recent projects moving from arts to engineering in Oslo and transdisciplinary research that integrates music, sounds, and painting, into environmental engineering. Uncovering the vortex of flow and creating an album of fluid motion that includes stories and experiences as data. Advocating for an emotional planning and the question how we might bring that kind of data into decision-making.
Episode #28 of “Becoming a post-growth planner: obstacles and challenges to changing roles and practices” with Prof Dr Christian Schulz (University of Luxembourg). In conversation with Dr Christian Lamker (University of Groningen, the Netherlands)."Within the discipline, there is something going in…". Reflecting on a decade of post-growth thinking in economic geography and spatial planning. Following diverse understandings and misunderstandings and post-growth practices in central Europe. Focusing on horizontal replication, learning, and regional perspectives. Understanding the importance of the social dimension in a post-growth transformation. Taking up the democratic idea and democratic challenge, e.g., towards critical thinking regarding housing policies and questions of land and land ownership. Identifying future hope in young scholars, students, and growing engagement in the discipline. Utilising experience from own research projects and two research-practice working groups on post-growth geographies and well-being.
Episode #27 of “Becoming a post-growth planner: obstacles and challenges to changing roles and practices” with Dr Sophie Sturup (Xi'an Jiaotong Liverpool University, China). In conversation with Dr Christian Lamker (University of Groningen, the Netherlands)."What kind of humans would populate the world that is actually sustainable?" Looking beyond individualism and the multiple beings, we are, and we can be in the world. Explaining the dangers of conceptualizing ourselves as separate from everything else. Using insights from Aboriginal thinking in Australia to remind science and ourselves about exposure to other worlds and the imperfection of language. Each of us matters, and the collective is me - working towards responsibility as something we take on as a duty of care to others. Pondering on own pathways into academia, towards governmentality, transport planning, public-private partnerships, and post-growth. Calling for authority and authenticity to speak in opportunities of participatory planning. Post-growth planning is not just an idea; it is something we must actually do.
Episode #26 of “Becoming a post-growth planner: obstacles and challenges to changing roles and practices” with Dr Izabela Mironowicz (Gdańsk University of Technology, Poland). In conversation with Dr Christian Lamker (University of Groningen, the Netherlands)."It is not enough that you believe, you have to practice too". Reflecting on experience and action in research, education, and practice in Poland, Austria, Germany, and Europe. Talking about scope of action within planning and legal systems, private and collective action, citizens and consumers, post-socialist housing estates, democracy and degrowth values. Pondering on historical backgrounds of cities and contemporary re-interpretations and positive narratives for the future. Explaning discussions on the integration of post-growth into education for students, practitioners, and activists. Positioning education as a tool to empower people and to empower a broader society. Moving towards post-growth planning as planning for nature, taking into account the needs of humans.
Episode #25 of “Becoming a post-growth planner: obstacles and challenges to changing roles and practices” with Luciana Maia (futurbanos, Germany). In conversation with Dr Christian Lamker (University of Groningen, the Netherlands).Can you be right in the wrong environment? Working through localising global agendas in diverse contexts, into legacies and relations between Global North and Global South, and recent international experiences. Arguing with post-growth principles, layers of decision-making and the power of Doughnut Economics as a model. Strengthening the importance of a common language and terminology, of listening as a precondition for dialogue and understanding, and providing hope and optimism for the future by connecting urgencies with normative ideas by diverse people. Post-Growth planning as a crucial piece of the puzzle and a pathway for collectively slowing down.
Episode #24 of “Becoming a post-growth planner: obstacles and challenges to changing roles and practices” with Anton Brokow-Loga (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany). In conversation with Dr Christian Lamker (University of Groningen, the Netherlands).Reflecting on the interfaces between sustainability, post-growth, and democracy, early seeds of post-growth debates in Germany, experiences in local politics, growth coalitions and political images, political shifts in Europe and threats to democracy, but also education, engagement, and sources for future optimism. Arguing for politicizing the sustainability debate in spatial planning and identifying points of intervention.
Episode #23 of “Becoming a post-growth planner: obstacles and challenges to changing roles and practices” with Dr Benedikt Schmid (University of Freiburg, Germany). In conversation with Dr Christian Lamker (University of Groningen, the Netherlands).Talking about experience from working groups on post-growth geographies and alternative approaches to prosperity, the common good in housing and district development in Freiburg/Germany and beyond, making limits visible and navigable, the importance of adopting a critical perspective, to be courageous by engaging and questioning and the key of listening to wishes, potentials, and abilities.
Episode #22 of “Becoming a post-growth planner: obstacles and challenges to changing roles and practices” with Dr Jakub Rok (University of Warsaw, Poland). In conversation with Dr Christian Lamker (University of Groningen, the Netherlands).
Episode #21 of “Becoming a Post-Growth Planner: Obstacles and Challenges to Changing Roles and Practices” with Dr Angelos Varvarousis (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain). In conversation with Dr Christian Lamker (University of Groningen, the Netherlands).
Episode #20 of “Becoming a post-growth planner: obstacles and challenges to changing roles and practices” with Prof Dr Thomas Hartmann (TU Dortmund University, Germany). In conversation with Dr Christian Lamker (University of Groningen, the Netherlands).
You might want to read into the following works that are related to this episode:
- Lacoere, P., Hengstermann, A., Jehling, M., & Hartmann, T. (2023). Compensating Downzoning. A Comparative Analysis of European Compensation Schemes in the Light of Net Land Neutrality. Planning Theory & Practice, 24(2), 190–206. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649357.2023.2190152
- Gerber, J.‑D., Hartmann, T., & Hengstermann, A. (Eds.). (2018). Instruments of land policy: Dealing with scarcity of land. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315511658
- van Straalen, F., Hartmann, T., & Sheehan, J. (Eds.). (2020). Routledge complex real property rights series. Property rights and climate change: Land use under changing environmental conditions. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315520094
- Needham, B., Buitelaar, E., & Hartmann, T. (2018). Planning, Law and Economics: The Rules We Make for Using Land (Second edition). The RTPI library series. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315111278
- Hartmann, T. (2012). Wicked problems and clumsy solutions: Planning as expectation management. Planning Theory, 11(3), 242–256. https://doi.org/10.1177/1473095212440427
This episode is also available on YouTube (channel: @postgrowthplan).
Episode #19 of “Becoming a post-growth planner: obstacles and challenges to changing roles and practices” with Dr Dick Magnusson (Linköping University, Sweden). In conversation with Dr Christian Lamker (University of Groningen, the Netherlands).
You might want to read into the following works that are related to this episode:
- Grundel, I., & Magnusson, D. (2023). Planning to grow, planning to rock on – infrastructure management and development in shrinking municipalities. European Planning Studies, 31(6), 1184–1202. https://doi.org/10.1080/09654313.2022.2108311
- Magnusson, D., & Grundel, I. (2023). Large technical systems in shrinking municipalities – Exploring system reconfiguration of district heating in Sweden. Energy Research & Social Science, 97, 102963. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2023.102963
- Magnusson, D., & Palm, J. (2019). Come Together—The Development of Swedish Energy Communities. Sustainability, 11(4), 1056. https://doi.org/10.3390/su11041056
This episode is also available on YouTube(channel: @postgrowthplan).
Episode #18 of “Becoming a post-growth planner: obstacles and challenges to changing roles and practices” with Prof Dr Antje Bruns (University of Trier, Germany). In conversation with Dr Christian Lamker (University of Groningen, the Netherlands).
You might want to read into the following works that are related to this episode:
- Keynote DOKORP23, Prof. Dr. Antje Bruns, The Governance of Sustainability. Reflections on Science and Policy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQ5SqJWPSJU
- Bruns, A. (2020). Provincializing Degrowth: Alternativen zu Entwicklung und der Globale Süden. In B. Lange, M. Hülz, B. Schmid, & C. Schulz (Eds.), Sozial- und Kulturgeographie: Vol. 38. Postwachstumsgeographien: Raumbezüge diverser und alternativer Ökonomien (pp. 239–256). transcript Verlag. https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839451809-018
- Bruns, A. (2020): Bewertung des Postwachstumsansatzes – Perspektiven aus dem Süden. Themenheft Postwachstum in der Raumentwicklung. politische ökologie 160. S. 79-84.
- Website University of Trier: https://www.uni-trier.de/universitaet/fachbereiche-faecher/fachbereich-vi/faecher/nachhaltige-raeumliche-entwicklung-governance/team/prof-dr-antje-bruns
This episode is also available on YouTube (channel: @postgrowthplan).
Episode #17 of “Becoming a post-growth planner: obstacles and challenges to changing roles and practices” with Dr Stephen Leitheiser (Wageningen University & Research, the Netherlands). In conversation with Dr Christian Lamker (University of Groningen, the Netherlands).
You might want to read into the following works that are related to this episode:
- Leitheiser, S., & Horlings, L. G. (2021). Planning for food commons in the post-COVID world. Town Planning Review, 92(2), 181–186. https://doi.org/10.3828/tpr.2020.80 (Viewpoint).
- Leitheiser, S., Trell, E.‑M., Horlings, L. G., & Franklin, A. (2021). Toward the commoning of governance. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/23996544211033992
- Leitheiser, S., Vezzoni, R., & Hakkarainen, V. (2022). Painting Outside the Lines: Transgressing the Managerial University, Avoiding Forced Creativity. In A. Franklin (Ed.), Co-Creativity and Engaged Scholarship (pp. 43–73). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84248-2_2
- Leitheiser, S., & Follmann, A. (2019). The social innovation–(re)politicisation nexus: Unlocking the political in actually existing smart city campaigns? The case of SmartCity Cologne, Germany. Urban Studies, 69(3), 004209801986982. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098019869820
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Episode #16 of “Becoming a post-growth planner: obstacles and challenges to changing roles and practices” with Dr Sofia Greaves (Post-Growth InnovationLab, University of Vigo in Pontevedra). In conversation with Dr Christian Lamker (University of Groningen, the Netherlands).
You may like to view the following works that are mentioned or relate to this episode:
- Sofia's my art & blogs: https://www.sofiagreaves.online/
- Postgrowth Innovation Lab: https://postgrowth-lab.webs.uvigo.es/
- Greaves, Sofia. “Ildefonso Cerdà and the Eixample Grid Plan (1859). To Be or Not to Be Rome?” In Rome and the Colonial City: Rethinking the Grid, edited by Sofia Greaves and Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, 327–52. Oxbow Books, 2022. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv2gvdnpg.22.
- Greaves, Sofia, and Andrew Wallace-Hadrill. “Introduction: Decolonising the Roman Grid.” In Rome and the Colonial City: Rethinking the Grid, edited by Sofia Greaves and Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, 1–24. Oxbow Books, 2022. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv2gvdnpg.7.
- Greaves, Sofia. “Roman Planning as a Model for Urban Modernity in Liberal Naples.” In Remembering and Forgetting the Ancient City, edited by Javier Martínez Jiménez and Sam Ottewill-Soulsby, 137–64. Oxbow Books, 2022. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv2gvdnnz.13.
- Researchgate https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sofia_Greaves2/research
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Episode #15 of “Becoming a post-growth planner: obstacles and challenges to changing roles and practices” with Dr Chandrima Mukhopadhyay (Coordinator AESOP Thematic Group Planning Theories and Practices for the Global South & East). In conversation with Dr Christian Lamker (University of Groningen, the Netherlands).
You may like to view the following works that are mentioned or relate to this episode:
- AESOP Thematic Group 'Planning Theories and Practices for the Global South & East': https://aesop-planning.eu/thematic-groups/planning-theories-and-practices-for-the-global-south-east
- Carolini, G. Y. (2020). Go South, Young Planner, Go South! Journal of Planning Education and Research, 40(1), 10–15. https://doi.org/10.1177/0739456X18754317
- Kumar, A., Ramesh, A., & Watson, V. (2021). Vanessa Watson: Planning from the South: Learning from Academia - Praxis and Activism (AESOP Young Academics Booklet No. 10). Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP). https://eprints.aesop-planning.eu/handle/20.500.14235/15
- Mukhopadhyay, C., Hammami, F., & Watson, V. (2021). Introduction: Planning theories from ‘southern turn’ to ‘deeply rooted/situated in the South/context’: A project in the making. PlaNext - Next Generation Planning, 11, 9–25. https://doi.org/10.24306/plnxt/67
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Episode #14 of “Becoming a post-growth planner: obstacles and challenges to changing roles and practices” with Prof Dr Jin Xue (Norwegian University of Life Sciences). In conversation with Dr Christian Lamker (University of Groningen, the Netherlands).
You may like to view the following works that are mentioned or relate to this episode:
- Xue, J. (2022). Urban planning and degrowth: a missing dialogue. Local Environment, 27(4), 404–422. https://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2020.1867840
- Mete, S., & Xue, J. (2021). Integrating environmental sustainability and social justice in housing development: two contrasting scenarios. Progress in Planning, 151, 100504. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.progress.2020.100504
- Xue, J. (2019). Housing for degrowth: Space, planning and distribution. In A. Nelson & F. Schneider (Eds.), Routledge environmental humanities. Housing for degrowth: Principles, models, challenges and opportunities (pp. 185–195). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315151205-16
- Xue, J. (2013). Economic growth and sustainable housing: An uneasy relationship. Ontological explorations. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315887395
This episode is also available on YouTube (channel: postgrowthplanning).
Episode #13 of “Becoming a post-growth planner: obstacles and challenges to changing roles and practices” with Dr Kim von Schönfeld (University of Porto, Portugal) and Dr Federico Savini (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands). In conversation with Dr Christian Lamker (University of Groningen, the Netherlands).
You may like to view the following works that are mentioned or relate to this episode:
- Savini, F., Ferreira, A., & Schönfeld, K. C. von (Eds.). (2022). Post-Growth Planning: Cities beyond the market economy. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003160984
- Savini, F. (2021). Towards an urban degrowth: Habitability, finity and polycentric autonomism. Environment and Planning a, 53(5), 1076–1095. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518X20981391
- Savini, F. (2019). Responsibility, polity, value: The (un)changing norms of planning practices. Planning Theory, 18(1), 58–81. https://doi.org/10.1177/1473095218770474
- Ferreira, A., & Schönfeld, K. C. von (2020). Interlacing Planning and Degrowth Scholarship: A Manifesto for an Interdisciplinary Alliance. DisP - the Planning Review, 56(1), 53–64. https://doi.org/10.1080/02513625.2020.1756633 (Forum).
- Ferreira, A., Schönfeld, K. C. von, Tan, W., & Papa, E. (2020). Maladaptive Planning and the Pro-Innovation Bias: Considering the Case of Automated Vehicles. Urban Science, 4(3), 41. https://doi.org/10.3390/urbansci4030041
This episode is also available on YouTube (channel: postgrowthplanning).
Episode #12 of “Becoming a post-growth planner: obstacles and challenges to changing roles and practices” with Gavin Daly (University of Liverpool, UK). In conversation with Dr Christian Lamker (University of Groningen, the Netherlands).
You may like to view the following works that are mentioned or relate to this episode:
- Daly G. (2016). The neo-liberalization of strategic spatial planning and the overproduction of development in Celtic Tiger Ireland. In: European Planning Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/09654313.2016.1190813
- Daly G., Kitchin R. (2013). Shrink smarter? Planning for spatial selectivity in population growth in Ireland. https://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/4509/
- Daly G. (2018). ‘Project Ireland 2040’- Colonising the Future. https://irelandafternama.wordpress.com/2018/06/05/project-ireland-2040-colonising-the-future/
- Daly G (2020). Post-Growth Planning for Post-#COVID19 Times. https://irelandafternama.wordpress.com/2020/06/02/post-growth-planning-for-post-covid19-times/
Another podcast Gavin did on his work also here: https://podcasts.apple.com/ng/podcast/s2-ep4-gavin-daly-exploring-the-role-of-planners/id1533683408?i=1000501815960
This episode is also available on YouTube (channel: postgrowthplanning).
Episode #11 of “Becoming a post-growth planner: obstacles and challenges to changing roles and practices” with Dr Robert Kitzmann (Humboldt University, Berlin). In conversation with Dr Christian Lamker (University of Groningen, the Netherlands).
You may like to view the following works that are mentioned or relate to this episode: * Kitzmann, R. (2022). Home swapping as a degrowth strategy for housing. Urban Geography, 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2022.2093503 * Kitzmann, R. (2017). Private versus state-owned housing in Berlin: Changing provision of low-income households. Cities, 61, 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2016.10.017 * Suwala, L., Kitzmann, R., & Kulke, E. (2021). Berlin’s Manifold Strategies Towards Commercial and Industrial Spaces: The Different Cases of Zukunftsorte. Urban Planning, 6(3), 415–430. https://doi.org/10.17645/up.v6i3.4239
This episode is also available on YouTube (channel: postgrowthplanning).
Episode #10 of “Becoming a post-growth planner: obstacles and challenges to changing roles and practices” with Prof Yvonne Rydin (UCL London). In conversation with Dr Christian Lamker (University of Groningen, the Netherlands).
You may like to view the following works that are mentioned or relate to this episode: Rydin, Y. (2013). Future of planning: Beyond growth dependence. Bristol: Policy Press. Rydin, Y. (2021). Theory in Planning Research. Planning, environment, cities. Palgrave Macmillan. Lamker, C. W., Schulze Dieckhoff, V., & Schönfeld, K. C. von (2020, February 17). Post-growth from international planning perspectives Digital roundtable on the future of planning in a post-growth world. Guests: Anitra Nelson, Yvonne Rydin, Jin Xue, Christian Schulz. TU Dortmund. Dortmunder Konferenz für Raum- und Planungsforschung, Dortmund. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRNW1qtCh58
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Episode #9 of “Becoming a post-growth planner: obstacles and challenges to changing roles and practices” with Le-Lina Kettner and Samuel Mössner (University of Münster, Germany). In conversation with Dr Christian Lamker (University of Groningen, the Netherlands).
You may like to review the following works that are mentioned or related to this episode: * CorrensLab (Münster), https://www.correnslab.de * Kettner, L.‑L., & Mössner, S. (2021). Performing gaps. In B. Lange, M. Hülz, B. Schmid, & C. Schulz (Eds.), Post-Growth Geographies (pp. 173–188). transcript Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839457337-012 * Kettner, L.‑L., & Mössner, S. (2020). Performing gaps - Vom Verhältnis zwischen Alternativen Ökonomien und städtischer Planung in Dortmund. In B. Lange, M. Hülz, B. Schmid, & C. Schulz (Eds.), Sozial- und Kulturgeographie: Vol. 38. Postwachstumsgeographien: Raumbezüge diverser und alternativer Ökonomien (pp. 177–192). Bielefeld: transcript Verlag. * Krueger, R., Freytag, T., & Mössner, S. (Eds.) (2019). Adventures in sustainable urbanism. Albany: State University of New York. * Mössner, S., & Matos, C. G. de (2019). Researching the best-practice. In M. Raco & F. Savini (Eds.), Planning and knowledge: How new forms of technocracy are shaping contemporary cities (pp. 241–254). Bristol, UK, Chicago, IL, USA: Policy Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvkjb1z8.23
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Episode #8 of “Becoming a post-growth planner: obstacles and challenges to changing roles and practices” with Vincent Liegey (Budapest, Hungary). In conversation with Dr Christian Lamker (University of Groningen, the Netherlands).
You may like to review the following works that are also mentioned within this episode:
- Liegey, V., & Nelson, A. (2020). Exploring degrowth: A critical guide. FireWorks. Pluto Press.
- Veillot, A., Ondet, C., Madelaine, S., & Liegey, V. (2015). Neither protectionism nor neoliberalism but “open relocalization”, the basis for a new international [Economy]. https://www.bastamag.net/Neither-protectionism-nor-neoliberalism-but-open-relocalization-the-basis-for-a
- Cargonomia (Budapest): http://cargonomia.hu/?lang=en
- Projet Décroissance (France): http://www.projet-decroissance.net (in French)
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Episode #7 of “Becoming a post-growth planner: obstacles and challenges to changing roles and practices” with Karl Krähmer (Politecnico di Torino, Italy). In conversation with Dr Christian Lamker (University of Groningen, the Netherlands).
You may like to review the following article that is also mentioned within this episode:
Krähmer, K. (2021). Are green cities sustainable? A degrowth critique of sustainable urban development in copenhagen. European Planning Studies, 29(7), 1272–1289. https://doi.org/10.1080/09654313.2020.1841119
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Episode #6 of “Becoming a post-growth planner: obstacles and challenges to changing roles and practices” with Prof Dr Robin Boyle (Emeritus, Wayne State University, Department of Urban Studies & Planning, Detroit, U.S.A.). In conversation with Dr Christian Lamker (University of Groningen, the Netherlands).
You may like to view works of Robin Boyle:
- Barnekov, T., Boyle, R., Rich, D. (1989). Privatism and urban policy in Britain and the United States. Oxford University Press.
- Mohamed, R., Boyle, R., Yang, A. Y., & Tangari, J. (2017). Adaptive reuse: A review and analysis of its relationship to the 3 Es of sustainability. Facilities, 35(3/4), 138–154. https://doi.org/10.1108/F-12-2014-0108
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Episode #5 of “Becoming a post-growth planner: obstacles and challenges to changing roles and practices” with Prof. Dr. Tine Köhler (Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, Germany). In conversation with Dr Christian Lamker (University of Groningen, the Netherlands) and Viola Schulze Dieckhoff (TU Dortmund University, Germany).
You may like to view recent works of Tine Köhler:
- Berndgen-Kaiser, A., Köhler, T., Lorbek, M., & Wiechert, M. (2019). Land-management strategies and the detached housing stock in shrinking municipalities – evidence from Germany. Raumforschung Und Raumordnung Spatial Research and Planning, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.2478/rara-2019-0049
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Episode #4 of “Becoming a post-growth planner: obstacles and challenges to changing roles and practices” with Prof Dr Luca Bertolini (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands). In conversation with Dr Christian Lamker (University of Groningen, the Netherlands) and Viola Schulze Dieckhoff (TU Dortmund University, Germany).
You may like to view recent works of Luca Bertolini:
- Bertolini, L. (2020). From “streets for traffic” to “streets for people”: can street experiments transform urban mobility? Transport Reviews, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1080/01441647.2020.1761907
- Savini, F., & Bertolini, L. (2019). Urban experimentation as a politics of niches. Environment and Planning a, 51(4), 831–848. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518X19826085
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Episode #3 of "Becoming a post-growth planner: obstacles and challenges to changing roles and practices" with Dr António Ferreira (University of Porto, Portugal). In conversation with Dr Christian Lamker (University of Groningen, Netherlands) and Viola Schulze Dieckhoff (TU Dortmund University, Germany).
Read also into these current works by António:
- Ferreira, A., & Schönfeld, K. C. von (2020). Interlacing Planning and Degrowth Scholarship: A Manifesto for an Interdisciplinary Alliance. DisP - the Planning Review, 56(1), 53–64. https://doi.org/10.1080/02513625.2020.1756633 (Forum).
- Ferreira, A., Schönfeld, K. C. von, Tan, W., & Papa, E. (2020). Maladaptive Planning and the Pro-Innovation Bias: Considering the Case of Automated Vehicles. Urban Science, 4(3), 41. https://doi.org/10.3390/urbansci4030041
- Ferreira, A. (2018). Towards an Integrative Perspective: Bringing Ken Wilber’s Philosophy to Planning Theory and Practice. Planning Theory & Practice, 19(4), 558–577. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649357.2018.1496270
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Episode #2 of "Becoming a post-growth planner: obstacles and challenges to changing roles and practices" with Prof Dr Benjamin Davy, former Professor of Land Policy, Land Management, Municipal Geoinformation at TU Dortmund University, Germany, and currently visiting professor at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. In conversation with Dr Christian Lamker (University of Groningen) and Viola Schulze Dieckhoff (TU Dortmund University).
Read and watch also into these:
- Davy, B., & Lamker, C. W. (2020, March 24). Spatial planning and human dignity (in times of Corona): Online guest lecture in City Matters. Interview. University of Groningen. Master Socio-Spatial Planning. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6_cl3t1hXM
- Davy, B., & Schulze Dieckhoff, V. (2020, June 17). Eigentumsrechte der Natur: Postwachstumsplanung durch Anerkennung von Tierrechten oder Baumrechten. TU Dortmund. Schulze Dieckhoff, V. Master Spatial Planning, Dortmund, Bielefeld. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5AFfnv4VFo
- Davy, B., & Lamker, C. W. (2019). Menschenwürde und die vielen Rationalitäten des Seins: Ein Gespräch mit Benjamin Davy über Menschenwürde, Eigentum und die planerische Gestaltung der Raumgebundenheit menschlicher Existenz. In J. Haltaufderheide, I. Otte, & P. Weber (Eds.), Edition Kulturwissenschaft: Vol. 199. Raum und Würde: Interdisziplinäre Beiträge zum Verhältnis von Normativität und räumlicher Wirklichkeit. Städtebau - Transitorte - Hospize. (pp. 65–78). Transcript. https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839447321-006
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Episode #1 of "Becoming a post-growth planner: obstacles and challenges to changing roles and practices" with Prof Dr John Barry from Queen's University Belfast. In conversation with Dr Christian Lamker (University of Groningen) and Viola Schulze Dieckhoff (TU Dortmund University).
This episode makes use of, among others, these two recent publications by John Barry:
- Barry, J. (2020). Planning in and for a post-growth and post-carbon economy. In S. Davoudi, R. Cowell, & I. White (Eds.), Routledge Handbooks Online. The Routledge companion to environmental planning (pp. 120–129). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315179780-13
- Barry, J. (2020). A Genealogy of Economic Growth as Ideology and Cold War Core State Imperative. New Political Economy, 25(1), 18–29. https://doi.org/10.1080/13563467.2018.1526268
More on John Barry's work: https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/john-barry
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