Overview
- Breaks new ground by considering ethical issues and moral experience from an architectural and urban planning perspective
- Not only fills a gap in the existing literature, but also represents a new category of ideas that will become relevant for a wide range of specialists on the built environment, and also for the informed reader
- Departs from an environment-centric analysis by interfacing with traditional texts in ethics that privilege the face-to-face encounters
- Critiques the different reformulations of the urban (the Smart City; the Resilient City; the Global City; the Ethical City), where despite this multitude of reformulations, neither their respective normative claims, nor the city itself, has yet to be properly figured, or studied, as an aspect of our moral experience
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About this book
Increasingly, we live in an environment of our own making: a ‘world as design’ over the natural world. For more than half of the global population, this environment is also thoroughly urban. But what does a global urban condition mean for the human condition? How does the design of the city and the urban process, in response to the issues and challenges of the Anthropocene, produce new ethical categories, shape new moral identities and relations, and bring about consequences that are also morally significant? In other words, how does the urban shape the ethical—and in what ways? Conversely, how can ethics reveal relations and realities of the urban that often go unnoticed? This book marks the first systematic study of the city through the ethical perspective in the context of the Anthropocene. Six emergent urban conditions are examined, namely, precarity, propinquity, conflict, serendipity, fear and the urban commons.
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Keywords
- urban ethics
- architecture
- planning
- urban design
- public philosophy
- urban experience
- ethics of the built environment
- moral experience
- Ethical Choices
- practical ethics
- spatial injustice
- just cities
- environmental ethics
- moral philosophy
- Precarity
- smart cities
- just cities
- resilient cities
- ethical cities
- urban geography and urbanism
Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Jeffrey Kok Hui Chan is assistant professor at the Singapore University of Technology and Design. His research focuses on design ethics and his writings have been widely published.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Urban Ethics in the Anthropocene
Book Subtitle: The Moral Dimensions of Six Emerging Conditions in Contemporary Urbanism
Authors: Jeffrey K.H. Chan
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0308-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-0307-4Published: 17 July 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-4383-4Published: 10 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-0308-1Published: 03 July 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 172
Topics: Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), Ethics, Landscape Architecture, Urbanism