Brendan Gleeson is Director of the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, University of Melbourne, Australia. His books include The Urban Condition (2014) and Australian Heartlands: Making Space for Hope in the Suburbs (2006).
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Unsettling the Story of Disenchantment: Excerpt from Urban Awakenings
Urban life in industrial civilisation has the tendency to disenchant everyday experience. Too often, in the daily grind, one is left feeling disconnected from people, place, and purpose.
December 3, 2020
The Suburbs are the Spiritual Home of Overconsumption. But they also Hold the Key to a Better Future
Suburban catastrophists such as James Kunstler argue that fossil fuel depletion will turn our suburbs into urban wastelands. But we see the suburbs as an ideal place to begin retrofitting our cities.
December 14, 2018
Degrowth in the Suburbs: Excerpt
As we have observed, the suburb represented and accomplished the dialectic of modern urbanism, creating and destroying human possibility. Can we imagine it differently?
October 25, 2018
