Taking ‘fallen-below’ seriously: Spacing, placing, and scaling foundational liveability

This commentary takes ‘fallen-below’ seriously but hesitates and points to a need to develop some spatially enabled building blocks to advance foundational liveability thinking. Placing and scaling foundational liveability, first, a geographical perspective needs to be more explicitly stated as a point of theoretical and political entry. Second, place needs to be conceived relationally but with coherence for community collaboration to develop foundational economy citizens. Third, to avoid spatial particularism, foundational liveability needs to demonstrate how alliances and citizenship loyalties can be mobilised as part of a progressive scalar strategy without falling into the trap of localism.