The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of the City

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The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of the City is an outstanding reference source to this exciting subject and the first collection of its kind. Comprising 40 chapters by a team of international contributors, the Handbook is divided into clear sections addressing the following central topics: - Historical Philosophical Engagements with Cities - Modern and Contemporary Philosophical Theories of the City - Urban Aesthetics - Urban Politics - Citizenship - Urban Environments and the Creation/Destruction of Place. The concluding section, Urban Engagements, contains interviews with philosophers discussing their engagement with students and the wider public on issues and initiatives including experiential learning, civic and community engagement, disability rights and access, environmental degradation, professional diversity, social justice, and globalization. Essential reading for students and researchers in environmental philosophy, aesthetics, and political philosophy, The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of the City is also a useful resource for those in related fields, such as geography, urban studies, sociology, and political science. Cover Half Title Series Title Copyright Contents Notes on contributors Introduction: transforming philosophy and the city Part I Urban philosophies Section 1 Historical philosophical engagements with cities 1 Plato’s city-soul analogy: the slow train to ordinary virtue 2 Philosophers and the city in early modern Europe 3 Pragmatic engagement in the city: philosophy as a means for catalyzing collective, creative capacity (lessons from John Dewey and Jane Addams) 4 Back to the cave Section 2 Modern and contemporary philosophical theories of the city 5 Urban philosophy in Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project 6 Henri Lefebvre and the right to the city 7 Foucault and urban philosophy 8 Iris Marion Young’s city of difference Part II Philosophical engagement with urban issues Section 1 Urban aesthetics 9 Urban planning and design as an aesthetic dilemma: void versus volume in city-form 10 Architecture and philosophy of the city 11 A philosophy of urban parks 12 Political aesthetics of public art in urban spaces 13 Walking the city: flânerie and flâneurs 14 How might creative placemaking lead to more just cities? Section 2 Urban politics 15 Beyond deliberation and civic engagement: participatory budgeting and a new philosophy of public power 16 Constructing communities in urban spaces 17 Houselessness 18 Residential segregation and rethinking the imperative of integration 19 Gentrification 20 The Occupy movement and the reappearance of the polis Section 3 Citizenship 21 City and common space 22 The concept of public space 23 From Good to Progressive Planning 24 Hospitality in sanctuary cities 25 Black Lives Matter and the Ferguson moment: toward a philosophy of urban relegation 26 Nature where you’re not: rethinking environmental spaces and racism 27 Ghost cities: globalization, neo-capitalist speculation, and the empty cities of the Global South Section 4 Urban environments and the creation/destruction of place 28 Metropolitan growth 29 Environmental philosophy in the city: confronting the antiurban bias to overcome the human-nature divide 30 Zoöpolis: animals in the city 31 Philosophy of the city and transportation justice 32 Returning water to urban life: governmentality of green infrastructure and the emergence of new human-water relations 33 Urban agriculture and environmental imagination 34 Paradox in the city: urban complications regarding climate change and climate justice Section 5 Urban engagements 35 An agora grows in Brooklyn: an interview with Ian Olasov 36 Reaching out to the underrepresented: an interview with John R. Torrey 37 Blurring the boundaries between the classroom and the city: an interview with Stephen Bloch-Schulman 38 Phronesis Lab: practical wisdom in the city: an interview with Sharyn Clough 39 Doing field philosophy in the gas fields of Texas: an interview with Adam Briggle 40 Engaging cities at home and abroad: connecting our students with urban communities: an interview with Sarah Donovan Index