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The suburbs are the spiritual home of overconsumption. But they also hold the key to a better future

  • Written by Samuel Alexander, Research fellow, Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, University of Melbourne
The suburbs are the spiritual home of overconsumption. But they also hold the key to a better futureThe typical suburban backyard of the future?Retrosuburbia.com (with permission)

Suburban affluence is the defining image of the good life under capitalism, commonly held up as a model to which all humanity should aspire.

More than half of the world’s population now lives in cities. Yet with the global economy already in gross ecological...

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