Post growth planning : cities beyond the market economy This book draws on a wide range of conceptual and empirical materials to identify and examine planning and policy approaches that move beyond the imperative of perpetual economic growth. It sketches out a path toward planning theories and practices that can break the cyclical process of urban expansion crises and recovery that negatively affect ecosystems and human lives. To reduce the dramatic social and environmental impact of urbanization the book both offers a critique of growth led urban development and prefigures ecologically regenerative and socially just ways of organizing cities and regions. It uncovers emerging possibilities for post growth planning in the fields of collective housing mobility urban commoning ecological land use urban rural symbiosis and alternative planning worldviews. It offers a toolkit of concepts and real life examples for urban scholars urbanists activists architects and designers seeking to make cities prosper within planetary boundaries. The book speaks to both experts and beginners in post growth thinking. It concludes with a manifesto and glossary of key terms for urban scholars students and practitioners