Degrowth in the Suburbs -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 1 Reimagining the Suburbs Beyond Growth -- Prelude: The Great Resettlement -- The Suburban Age -- The End of the Carnival -- A Crisis of Overproduction -- Consumptive Cities -- The Limits to Capital -- To a New Settlement -- Charting for Degrowth -- Our Project: A Radical Urban Imaginary -- Chapter Overviews -- References -- 2 Carbon Suburbia and the Energy Descent Future -- Powerdown: Navigating Energy Descent Futures -- The Energetic Foundations of Suburbia -- The Finitude of Oil and the Fate of Suburbia -- Peak Oil: Not Dead, Only in Remission -- Unburnable Carbon -- The Moral Hazard of Possible Technological Solutions -- The Politics and Economics of Deep Decarbonisation -- A Just Transition to a Post-carbon Suburbia Implies Energy Descent -- References -- 3 Light Green Illusions and the 'Blind Field' of Techno-optimism -- Nuclear Energy: Limited Potential as Carbon Mitigation Technology -- Can Renewable Energy Fully Replace Fossil Fuels? -- Renewable Energy: The Potential and Limitations -- A Critique of Electric Vehicles: Driving Down the Wrong Road More Slowly -- Energy Descent, Relocalisation, and the Low-Mobility Future -- References -- 4 Resettling Suburbia: A Post-capitalist Politics 'From Below' -- Democracy, Energy Descent, and the Post-capitalist Politics of Degrowth -- The Growth Imperative, Capital, and the Political Problem of 'Empire' -- The Politics of the Household Economy: Driving Suburban Change 'From Below' -- Re-accomplishing Democracy Through Participation -- Resistance and Renewal: Contemporary Urban Social Movements Bubbling Under the Surface -- Getting on with the Work of Resettling -- References -- 5 Unlearning Abundance: Suburban Practices of Energy Descent -- Degrowth for Whom? -- Enough, for Everyone, Forever: Towards an Economics of Sufficiency.

Suburban Practices of Energy Descent -- The Necessity of Demand Reduction -- Solar -- An Electric 'Heat Pump' Hot Water System -- Biogas in the Suburbs -- Post-carbon Transport -- Low-Meat Diets and the Other Great Taboo -- Towards a Post-carbon Suburban Homestead: Reimagining the Good Life -- Enlightened Material Restraint: The Practice of Sufficiency and Self-Limitation -- Eating the Suburbs -- Escaping the Market: Sharing, Gift, and the Urban Peasantry -- Retrofitting the Suburbs: Prospects and Obstacles -- Aim for Sustainability but Settle for Resilience? -- References -- 6 Degrowth in the Suburbs: Envisioning a Prosperous Descent -- Reflections on the Future: Looking Backward from the Year 2038 -- Oil, Financial Crisis, and the Second Great Depression -- Life After Growth: Crisis as Opportunity in Australia -- Degrowth in the Suburbs: Embracing the Sufficiency Imperative -- Water -- Urban Agriculture -- Work, Production, and Self-Employment in the Informal Economy -- Transport in a Local Economy -- Managing Energy Descent -- Reimagining the Built Environment -- A Prosperous Descent -- 7 Regoverning the City: Policies for a New Economy -- Structures for Sufficiency -- New Economics for a Full Planet -- Degrowth, Austerity Urbanism, and the Politics of Culture -- Policies for a New Economy -- Explicit Adoption of Post-growth Measures of Progress -- Reduce Impacts via Diminishing 'Resource Caps' -- Working Hour Reductions -- Rethink Budget Spending for a Degrowth Transition -- Renewable Energy -- Transformation in Banking and Finance Systems -- A New Paradigm for Housing and Land -- Population Policies -- Distributive Justice -- Other Policies? -- Regoverning the City: Suburban Implications -- References -- 8 A New Suburban Condition Dawns -- Sisyphus in the Suburbs -- What Is to Be Done? Raise Hell! -- References -- Index.

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