Unsettling the Story of Disenchantment: Excerpt from Urban Awakenings
By Samuel Alexander, Brendan Gleeson, Resilience.org
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.
The Suburbs are the Spiritual Home of Overconsumption. But they also Hold the Key to a Better Future
By Samuel Alexander, Brendan Gleeson, The Conversation
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.
Degrowth in the Suburbs: Excerpt
By Samuel Alexander, Brendan Gleeson, Resilience.org
As we have observed, the suburb represented and accomplished the dialectic of modern urbanism, creating and destroying human possibility. Can we imagine it differently?