Post-Growth Planning

Post-Growth Planning: A planning in which growth is neither a necessary starting point to plan nor a goal that must be achieved by means of planning. It works on change but does not set economic growth (especially in GDP terms) or competition among public entities (especially for population and for economic numbers) as its goal. Post-growth planning aims to enhance the quality of life for a diversity of people, but not with more of the same growth solutions. It acts within available resources (including land) and planetary boundaries through a multiplicity of roles to enable a good life for all. To achieve this, critical post-growth planners engage and motivate to take honest, just, and democratic decisions.

Starting from open questions in 2016/17, the exploration of #postgrowthplanning continues…