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.
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.
