Urban ethics in the anthropocene : the moral dimensions of six emerging conditions in contemporary urbanism /
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Singapore :
Palgrave Macmillan,
[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- Intro; Acknowledgements; Contents; 1 Introduction: Urban Ethics in the Anthropocene; The Urban World as Design; The Intellectual Foundations and Contours of Urban Ethics; The Just City Movement; The Urban Turn in Ethics: 'Urban Ethic', 'Urban Ethics', 'the Ethical City', and 'the Ethics of the Urban'; The Ethics of the Built Environment; Environmental Design and Human Behavior; The Emerging Discourse of Design in the Anthropocene; The Terms of Reference in This Book; A Summary of the Chapters in This Book; References; 2 Precarity; The Conditions of Precariousness and Precarity in the City
- Further Relations Between Precarious Spaces and Precarious SubjectsThe Precariat, or the Precarious Subject?; The General Attributes of Precarious Spaces; The Spatio-Ethical Dimensions of Precarity Observed in Siting Controversies; The Novel Moral Dimensions of Precarity in Siting Controversies; References; 3 Propinquity; Propinquity in the City: Relational, Spatial, and Situational Urban Propinquity; Why Is Propinquity Morally Significant? Propinquity and Its Effects on Human Relations; The Ethics of Proximity and Moral Distance; How Does the City Confound the Ethics of Proximity?
- A Modified Ethics of ProximityReferences; 4 Conflict; The Ubiquity of Urban Conflicts and the Imperative for Resolution; Why Are Conflicts Common in Spatial Planning?; What Are the Different Categories of Spatial Conflicts?; The First Conflict Resolution Approach: Collaborative Dialogues for Consensus Building; The Ethics of Consensus Building: Negotiation Tactics and Phronesis Amid Conflicts; The Second Conflict Resolution Approach: Forging a Compromise; The Distributive and the Integrative Compromise; The Ethics of Compromise?; References; 5 Serendipity; The Many Adventures of Serendipity
- The Low Road to Serendipity: An Alternative ContrastWhat Is Urban Serendipity?; Urban Serendipity: As an Emergent Effect of Large Cities; Urban Serendipity: A Possibility Threatened-Or Twisted-In the Smart City?; Urban Serendipity: As an Encounter with 'More-Than-Human' Agencies and Other Living Systems in the City; Urban Serendipity: As Moral Encounter with Others in the City; References; 6 Fear; Fear in the City; The Contemporary Meanings of Fear in the City; The Fear of the Migrant-Outsider, or the Stranger; The Fear of Radical Terrorism; The Fear of an Imminent Catastrophe; References
- 7 The Urban CommonsThe Commons at the Limit of Capitalism; The Definitions of the Urban Commons; The Ethics of the Urban Commons: A Preliminary Discussion; The Sharing Economy and the Urban Commons; The Ethics of Sharing: An Internal Ethics of the Urban Commons; References; Index