School of Social & Political Sciences

URBAN RETROFIT is defined as repairing existing places by adapting urban form to reduce energy consumption and carbon emissions, protect the environment and support sustainable lifestyles. Changes to the form of urban areas are starting to be delivered, however, implementation is slow, fragmented and increasingly controversial. Investment often flows to affluent places rather than communities in need of support and planning and development systems face delivery challenges.

 

Join us on the evening of May 7 in the Christopher Ingold Auditorium (UCL) for a roundtable discussion on post-growth planning, featuring speakers Dan Durrant (University College London), Anna Pagani (King's College London), and Lucia Cerrada Morato (King's College London). As a rapidly growing body of empirical evidence challenges the sustainability of perpetual growth, this discussion will explore whether growth itself is the problem and how the built environment should be governed, managed, and produced in a post-growth era.

 

The papers featured are from a thought-provoking special edition of the journal Built Environment.