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An empirical test of measures of housing degrowth: Learning from the limited experience of England and Wales, 1981–2011 by Rebecca Tunstall

This article is part of the forthcoming special issue: Urbanizing Degrowth: Towards a Radical Spatial Degrowth Agenda for Future Cities

Rebecca Tunstall's latest special issue study explores whether measurement of housing degrowth is possible with existing data.

Maintaining autonomy: Urban degrowth and the commoning of housing by Federico Savini

This article is part of the forthcoming special issue: Urbanizing Degrowth: Towards a Radical Spatial Degrowth Agenda for Future Cities

Federico Savini's special issue paper argues that the theory - and practice - of establishing autonomy from the hegemony of growth is central to the imaginary of degrowth.

The effect of meeting opportunities on local urban residents’ prejudice against migrant children in China by Jaap Nieuwenhuis and Xinyi Shen

Findings from Jaap Nieuwenhuis and Xinyi Shen's latest study show that parents whose children have more migrant friends have less prejudice, under certain conditions.

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