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Urban Ethics in the Anthropocene : The Moral Dimensions of Six Emerging Conditions in Contemporary Urbanism.

Av: Materialtyp: TextUtgivningsuppgift: Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018Datum för upphovsrätt: ©2019Utgåva: 1st edBeskrivning: 1 online resource (175 pages)Innehållstyp:
  • text
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  • computer
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789811303081
Ämnen: Genre/form: DDK-klassifikation:
  • 174.93071216
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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 Subjects -- The 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 Proximity -- References -- 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 Contrast -- What 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 Commons -- The 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.
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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 Subjects -- The 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 Proximity -- References -- 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 Contrast -- What 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 Commons -- The 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.

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