Urban Ethics : Conflicts Over the Good and Proper Life in Cities (Edition 1)

• Main Authors: Ege, Moritz, Moser, Johannes
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Routledge 05.10.2020; Taylor and Francis; Multiple Funders
• Edition: 1
• Series: Routledge Studies in Urbanism and the City
• Subjects: city conflicts; city politics; Earth Sciences; ethical conflicts; Ethics Philosophy; Geography; Philosophy of Social Science; Science; urban conflict; Urban Cultures; urban debates; urban ethics; Urban Geography; urban morality; Urban Policy; Urban Politics; Urban Sociology - Urban Studies; Urban Studies; urban tensions; Sunset Park; Good Life; Young Man; Housing Contention; Land Walls; Media Development Authority; Ethical Imagination; Creative City; Occupy Wall Street; Maurice Culot; Sergey Sobyanin; Urban Ethics; EU Democratic Deficit; 20th Century Urbanism; Heritage Protection Movement; Architectural Association; Regular Housing Market; West Germany; Industry City; La Joie De Vivre; Consumerist Citizen Identities; Auckland Council; Waste Behavior; Nuit Debout; Mediterranean Cities
• ISBN: 9781000175684; 1000175685; 0367545942; 9780367338428; 9780367545949; 0367338424
• DOI: 10.4324/9780429322310

This book delves into the ethical dimension of urban life: how should one live in the city? What constitutes a ‘good’ life under urban condition? Whose gets to live a ‘good’ life, and whose ideas of morality, propriety and ‘good’ prevail? What is the connection between the ‘good’ and the ‘just’ in urban life?Rather than philosophizing the ‘good’ and proper life in cities, the book considers what happens when urban conflicts and urban futures are carried out as conflicts over the good and proper life in cities. It offers an understanding of how ethical discourses, ideals and values are harmonized with material interests of different groups, taking up cases studies about environmental protection, co-housing schemes, political protest, heritage preservation, participatory planning, collaborative art production, and other topics from different eras and parts of the globe. This book offers multidisciplinary insights, ethnographic research and conceptual tools and resources to explore and better understand such conflicts. It questions the ways in which urban ethics draw on tacit moral economies of urban life and the ways in which such moral economies become explicit, political and programmatic.