Kaika, MariaVarvarousis, AngelosDemaria, FedericoMarch, Hug2024-06-112024-06-1120230042-0980https://hdl.handle.net/2445/212807We call for coupling degrowth with urban studies and planning agendas as an academically salient and politically urgent endeavour. Our aim is threefold: to explore ways for 'operationalising' degrowth concepts into urban and regional everyday spatial practices; to sketch pathways for taking degrowth conceptually and methodologically beyond localised experiments and inform larger scale planning practices and international agendas; and to critically assess the multiple ways in which such a radical urban degrowth agenda will have to differ in the Global North and in the Global South. We outline five steps for such a programmatic, yet paradigmatic, urban degrowth agenda. These are: (1) grounding current degrowth debates within their historical-geographical context; (2) engaging (planning) institutions in linking degrowth practices to urbanisation policies; (3) examining how urban insurgent degrowth alliances can be scaled up without co-optation; (4) focusing on the role of experts and professionals in bringing degrowth principles into everyday urban practice; and (5) prefiguring how degrowth agendas can confront the diverse and unequal urban social relations and uneven outcomes in the Global North and South.21 p.application/pdfengcc by (c) Urban Studies Journal Foundation, 2023http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/UrbanismeEcologia políticaCity planningPolitical ecologyinfo:eu-repo/semantics/article7330692024-06-11info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess