Philosophy and the City

Interdisciplinary and Transcultural Perspectives

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Interdisciplinary and Transcultural Perspectives

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Philosophy has its origins in the city, and in the context of our own highly urbanised modes of living, the relationship between philosophy and the city is more important than ever. The city is the place in which most humans now play out their lives, and the place that determines much of the cultural, social, economic, and political life of the contemporary world. Towards a Philosophy of the City explores a wide range of approaches and perspectives in a way that is true to the city’s complex and dynamic character. The volume begins with a comprehensive introduction that identifies the key themes and then moves through four parts, examining the concept of the city itself, its varying histories and experiences, the character of the landscapes that belong to the city, and finally the impact of new technologies for the future of city spaces. Each section takes up aspects of the thinking of the city as it develops in relation to particular problems, contexts, and sometimes as exemplified in particular cities. This volume provides an invaluable resource for students and scholars in Philosophy, Geography, Sociology and Urban Studies.

Table of Contents

On the Philosophy of the City – Keith Jacobs and Jeff Malpas

Further Reading

Part 1: City Concepts: Places, Processes, Structures

1. Capitalism, Form and the Philosophy of the Urban – David Cunningham

2. Discourses of the City – Kathleen Flanagan

3. The City as Wild – Wendy Steele

4. Urban Time and the City as Event – Tony Fry

5. The Immanent City – Simon Sadler

Part 2: City Landscapes: Experience, History, Identity

6. Solar Le Corbusier – Alan Stoekl

7. Escaping Modernity: Renaissance Florence and the Rejection of the City – Katie Campbell

8. Justice as the Urban Everyday – Wendy Pullan

9. Gardens, Cities, and Timescapes in South Asia – Smriti Srinivas

10. A Vertical Melbourne – Meg Nethercote

11. The City’s Other Face: Modern Ruins and Urban Endings – Emma Fraser

Part 3: City Futures: Power, Risk, and Value

12. Beyond Differences of Race, Class: Making Urban Subjects – Saskia Sassen

13. Cities Remade: On Deciding the Fate of Building in the City – Janet Donohoe

14. The City as a Construct of Risk and Security – Yosef Jabereen and Efrat Eizenberg

15. Philosophies of Commensuration, Value, Worth in the Future City: Rethinking the Interdisciplinary – Michael Keith

16. Multiplying Resistance: The Power of the Urban in the Age of National Revanchism – Asma Mehan and Ugo Rossi

17. Urban Futures and the Dark Enlightenment – Roger Burrows


Bibliography

Index

About the Contributors

Product details

Published Mar 15 2019
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 1st
Extent 288
ISBN 9781786604613
Imprint Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Illustrations 2 b/w photos
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Keith Jacobs

Anthology Editor

Jeff Malpas

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