Affordability and environmental sustainability of housing and urban landscapes are critical contemporary challenges for urbanists, planners, housing researchers and policy makers. The editors of a collection recently published in the Routledge Environmental Humanities series, Housing for Degrowth: Principles, Models, Challenges and Opportunities, will reveal how their book breaks new ground by applying a degrowth approach to housing — offering a holistic set of principles, demonstrating grassroots achievements, and the need for policy changes to optimise bottom-up efforts. The book includes a useful section with a debate between degrowth advocates on urbanisation, decentralisation and open localism.

Anitra Nelson (Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University, Melbourne) and François Schneider (ICTA, University Autonomous Barcelona) will draw on their own research and experiences, and identify key degrowth interventions and lessons presented by the more than 20 contributors to their book.