Urban Ethics: Conflicts Over the Good and Proper Life in Cities

This book explores the ethical dimension of urban life, examining how conflicts over the good and proper life shape urban conflicts and futures. It offers multidisciplinary insights into how ethical discourses, ideals, and values are harmonized with material interests of different groups through case studies from various eras and parts of the globe.

\n Format: Hardback
\n Length: 304 pages
\n Publication date: 30 September 2020
\n Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
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This comprehensive book delves into the ethical dimension of urban life, exploring the complexities of how individuals should navigate and thrive in urban environments. It raises important questions about what constitutes a 'good life under urban conditions, who has access to it, and whose moral and ethical ideals prevail. The book goes beyond mere philosophical contemplation and instead examines how urban conflicts and urban futures are often framed as conflicts over the good and proper life in cities. By examining a range of case studies, from environmental protection to co-housing schemes, political protest to heritage preservation, the book offers a deep understanding of how ethical discourses, ideals, and values are harmonized with the material interests of diverse groups.

The book employs a multidisciplinary approach, drawing on ethnographic research, conceptual tools, and resources to explore and better understand these conflicts. It questions the ways in which urban ethics draw on the tacit moral economies of urban life and the processes by which these moral economies become explicit, political, and programmatic.

Chapters 1 and 11 of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license. This allows readers to access the valuable insights and information contained within the book, regardless of their financial or geographical constraints.

In conclusion, this book is a valuable resource for scholars, policymakers, and practitioners interested in understanding the ethical dimensions of urban life. It provides multidisciplinary insights, ethnographic research, and conceptual tools to explore and better understand the complex conflicts that shape urban environments. By examining a range of case studies from different parts of the world and different eras, the book offers a rich and comprehensive understanding of the ethical challenges and opportunities that arise in urban spaces.

\n Weight: 628g\n
Dimension: 194 x 241 x 26 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9780367338428\n \n