The Potential of Post-Growth Planning: Re-Tooling the Planning Profession for Moving beyond Growth

Dr. Dan Durrant is a Lecturer in Infrastructure Planning at UCL’s Bartlett School of Planning. In addition to research into housing and local economic development he has conducted research into a number of controversial mega infrastructure projects both in the UK and in Germany. The latter was as an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Integrative Research Institute on Transformations of Human-Environment Systems at Berlin’s Humboldt University. Dr. Christian Lamker is Assistant Professor Sustainable Transformation & Regional Planning at the University of Groningen (Netherlands). His research and teaching within the Department of Spatial Planning and Environment focuses on roles in planning, post-growth planning, regional planning, and leadership in sustainable transformation. He has studied and worked on spatial planning in Dortmund, Aachen, Auckland, Detroit, and Melbourne and coordinates the Master programme Society, Sustainability and Planning (SSP) in Groningen. Yvonne Rydin is Professor of Planning, Environment and Public Policy at the Bartlett School of Planning, University College London. She has written widely on planning theory and practice, and is currently working on a book about planning without growth. Her most recent books are the single-authored Theory in Planning Research (Palgrave) and the co-edited Regulation and Planning: Practices, Institutions, Agency (Routledge)