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Integrating environmental sustainability and social justice in housing development: two contrasting scenarios
Highlights Alternative strategies for achieving sustainable and just future housing development are compelling The designed future scenarios are both environmentally sustainable and socially just The future scenarios are based on Ecological Modernization and Degrowth By decommodifying the housing sector and designing it around a set of needs, it is possible to obtain a higher level of justice Limiting the dwelling construction for the future, and ensuring a better utilization of the current stock, gives more environmental sustainability
Abstract The article discusses futures in housing development by applying the approaches from ‘future studies’ to design two explorative scenarios reflecting alternative strategies for achieving sustainable and just housing development. The main aim is to develop scenarios that can achieve a specific normative goal: a future housing development that is both environmentally sustainable and socially just. Two scenarios are built – ecological modernisation and degrowth – that reflect different degrees of societal change, ranging from conventional to radical. The scenarios are applied to the two selected cases of the Milan and Oslo regions, drawing on the statistics of the contextual housing system and the document analysis on planning and housing. We further discuss how the specific scenarios can take place and which challenges will be encountered.
Integrating environmental sustainability and social justice in housing development: two contrasting scenarios
Highlights Alternative strategies for achieving sustainable and just future housing development are compelling The designed future scenarios are both environmentally sustainable and socially just The future scenarios are based on Ecological Modernization and Degrowth By decommodifying the housing sector and designing it around a set of needs, it is possible to obtain a higher level of justice Limiting the dwelling construction for the future, and ensuring a better utilization of the current stock, gives more environmental sustainability
Abstract The article discusses futures in housing development by applying the approaches from ‘future studies’ to design two explorative scenarios reflecting alternative strategies for achieving sustainable and just housing development. The main aim is to develop scenarios that can achieve a specific normative goal: a future housing development that is both environmentally sustainable and socially just. Two scenarios are built – ecological modernisation and degrowth – that reflect different degrees of societal change, ranging from conventional to radical. The scenarios are applied to the two selected cases of the Milan and Oslo regions, drawing on the statistics of the contextual housing system and the document analysis on planning and housing. We further discuss how the specific scenarios can take place and which challenges will be encountered.
Integrating environmental sustainability and social justice in housing development: two contrasting scenarios
Mete, Silvia (author) / Xue, Jin (author)
Progress in Planning ; 151
2020-05-13
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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