ABSTRACT

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.

chapter |16 pages

Introduction

Transforming philosophy and the city

part I|93 pages

Urban philosophies

section Section 1|44 pages

Historical philosophical engagements with cities

chapter 1|11 pages

Plato’s city-soul analogy

The slow train to ordinary virtue

chapter 3|9 pages

Pragmatic engagement in the city

Philosophy as a means for catalyzing collective, creative capacity (lessons from John Dewey and Jane Addams)

chapter 4|12 pages

Back to the cave

section Section 2|47 pages

Modern and contemporary philosophical theories of the city

part II|318 pages

Philosophical engagement with urban issues

section Section 1|68 pages

Urban aesthetics

chapter 9|16 pages

Urban planning and design as an aesthetic dilemma

Void versus volume in city-form

chapter 13|9 pages

Walking the city

Flânerie and flâneurs

section Section 2|70 pages

Urban politics

chapter 15|10 pages

Beyond deliberation and civic engagement

Participatory budgeting and a new philosophy of public power

chapter 17|13 pages

Houselessness

chapter 19|9 pages

Gentrification

section Section 3|73 pages

Citizenship

chapter 21|10 pages

City and common space 1

chapter 22|8 pages

The concept of public space

chapter 23|8 pages

From Good to Progressive Planning

chapter 24|12 pages

Hospitality in sanctuary cities

chapter 25|10 pages

Black Lives Matter and the Ferguson moment

Toward a philosophy of urban relegation

chapter 26|13 pages

Nature where you’re not

Rethinking environmental spaces and racism

chapter 27|10 pages

Ghost cities

Globalization, neo-capitalist speculation, and the empty cities of the Global South

section Section 4|75 pages

Urban environments and the creation/destruction of place

chapter 28|8 pages

Metropolitan growth

chapter 29|18 pages

Environmental philosophy in the city

Confronting the antiurban bias to overcome the human-nature divide

chapter 30|7 pages

Zoöpolis

Animals in the city

chapter 32|13 pages

Returning water to urban life

Governmentality of green infrastructure and the emergence of new human-water relations

chapter 34|10 pages

Paradox in the city

Urban complications regarding climate change and climate justice 1