Genealogies and evolutions of the ecological thread in urbanism and spatial planning in a post-growth perspective
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https://doi.org/10.13133/2532-6562/18517Keywords:
Ecological transition, urban metabolism, ecopolitan planning, ecopolitan urbanismAbstract
In the face of the demands urged by climate change and socio-ecological transition, the article reconstructs how in the last century ecological thinking has traversed urbanism with projects and models called upon to bridge the city-countryside and society-nature opposition. This exploration, generically chronological, does not follow a systematic method of historical-disciplinary analysis. Rather, the aim is to trace the various strands of thought that, directly or indirectly, have addressed the issue of the ecological dimension in the theory and practice of human settlement planning and design. This discussion aims at tracing a genealogy of multidisciplinary proposals that have been oriented towards dynamics other than those that are merely expansive, of accumulation or revenue, or have taken them into account and attempted to counterbalance their effects. The final aim is to provide some elements for a renewed contribution of urbanism to the critical debate currently underway on the future of urbanised territories in a post-growth perspective.
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