Girona Postcreixentista
Girona - a postgrowth municipality
In early 2024, we signed a world-first “post-growth memorandum of understanding” with Girona, pledging to research and implement adjustments to the city’s economy for it prioritises planetary & human well-being, over endless economic growth.
Together with the municipality we are developing public policies that pave pathways towards the post-growth city.
What could a postgrowth Girona look like?
The new urban economy has relocalised production of many things which were being imported, focusing on biomaterials, and things that are neither detrimental nor useless.
Economic wealth is better distributed as a result of wealth taxes, achieved by joining forces with other cities around the country to “influence upwards” to change national policies.
The city administration and citizens are aware of resource flows to and from the city, its immediate hinterland, and the rest of Catalonia, and these links are valued and fostered.
Profit and work are shared more widely than before, meaning more jobs and less working hours.
Collective luxury is understood, and valued over individual accumulation.
Economics is taught differently, from a young age, based on the idea that the Economy takes place inside the Environment, rather than simply using it as a free pot of resources.