Postgrowth Cities Sessions: Beyond the Operational Landscape
By Nikos Katsikis (TU Delft)
For more than a century, processes of planetary urbanization have reshaped the Earth’s terrain, creating a multiscalar web of operational landscapes: globalized zones of primary production (agriculture, forestry, mining, fishing), circulation, and waste disposal. These more-than-city spaces intertwine urban metabolism with the capitalist imperative for profit.
Event details of
Postgrowth Cities Sessions: Beyond the Operational Landscape
- Date
- 22 May 2025
- Time
- 16:30 -18:00
- Room
- B3.03
This session explores how the operational landscape has become a key driver of social inequality, environmental degradation, and ecological crisis. It investigates alternative models for organizing urban life—focusing on paradigms such as Ecoregionalism and circularity—and evaluates their potential to reconfigure urban metabolisms toward more just and sustainable futures.
Join us for a critical conversation on transcending the dominant modes of urban production—and envisioning postgrowth alternatives.
About Nikos Katsikis
Nikos Katsikis is Associate Professor of Urbanism at the TU Delft, Afiliated researcher at Urban Theory Lab Chicago and Future Cities Laboratory, ETH, Zurich.
