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Over the past years, the concept of circularity has gained considerable momentum in spatial planning as part of the broader transition predicated upon resource efficiency, climate change mitigation and the promise of an economic makeover. With cities and regions envisaged as frontrunners of the circular transition, the turn to spatial planning came as a natural step in problematizing the role of local value retention and upscaling toward a circular economy. Both issues beg the question of what value regimes are desirable within emergent circular ecosystems, and whether those provide more spatially and environmentally just alternatives to the status quo. In this exploratory paper, I adopt a topological standpoint to reflect on the limitations and potentialities of circular-regenerative systems to propose an alternative view of upscaling as a patchworking process, whereby circular value regimes play a foundational role.
| Keywords | Value regimes, postgrowth, circular economy, upscaling, topology. |
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| Best Congress Paper Award | No |
