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
BySamantha Noll, Joseph S. Biehl, Sharon M. Meagher

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
ByNathan Nicol

chapter 2|10 pages

Philosophers and the city in early modern Europe 1

ByFerenc Hörcher

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)
ByDanielle Lake

chapter 4|12 pages

Back to the cave

ByJoseph S. Biehl

section Section 2|47 pages

Modern and contemporary philosophical theories of the city

chapter 5|11 pages

Urban philosophy in Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project

ByFrank Cunningham

chapter 6|11 pages

Henri Lefebvre and the right to the city

ByLoren King

chapter 7|14 pages

Foucault and urban philosophy

ByKevin Scott Jobe

chapter 8|9 pages

Iris Marion Young’s city of difference

ByElyse Purcell

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
ByAbraham Akkerman

chapter 10|12 pages

Architecture and philosophy of the city

BySaul Fisher

chapter 11|6 pages

A philosophy of urban parks

ByAmanda J. Meyer, Charles Taliaferro

chapter 12|11 pages

Political aesthetics of public art in urban spaces

ByFred Evans

chapter 13|9 pages

Walking the city

Flânerie and flâneurs
ByKathryn Kramer, John Rennie Short

chapter 14|12 pages

How might creative placemaking lead to more just cities?

BySharon M. Meagher

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
ByAlexander Kolokotronis, Michael Menser

chapter 16|10 pages

Constructing communities in urban spaces

ByBrian Elliott

chapter 17|13 pages

Houselessness

ByKevin Scott Jobe

chapter 18|13 pages

Residential segregation and rethinking the imperative of integration

ByRonald R. Sundstrom

chapter 19|9 pages

Gentrification

ByTyler Zimmer

chapter 20|13 pages

The Occupy movement and the reappearance of the polis

ByChad Kautzer

section Section 3|73 pages

Citizenship

chapter 21|10 pages

City and common space 1

ByPaula Cristina Pereira

chapter 22|8 pages

The concept of public space

ByBrian A. Weiner

chapter 23|8 pages

From Good to Progressive Planning

ByPeter Marcuse

chapter 24|12 pages

Hospitality in sanctuary cities

ByBenjamin Boudou

chapter 25|10 pages

Black Lives Matter and the Ferguson moment

Toward a philosophy of urban relegation
ByPaul C. Taylor

chapter 26|13 pages

Nature where you’re not

Rethinking environmental spaces and racism
ByEsme G. Murdock

chapter 27|10 pages

Ghost cities

Globalization, neo-capitalist speculation, and the empty cities of the Global South
BySharon M. Meagher

section Section 4|75 pages

Urban environments and the creation/destruction of place

chapter 28|8 pages

Metropolitan growth

ByRobert Kirkman

chapter 29|18 pages

Environmental philosophy in the city

Confronting the antiurban bias to overcome the human-nature divide
ByAlexandria K. Poole

chapter 30|7 pages

Zoöpolis

Animals in the city
ByCynthia Willett

chapter 31|6 pages

Philosophy of the city and transportation justice

ByShane Epting

chapter 32|13 pages

Returning water to urban life

Governmentality of green infrastructure and the emergence of new human-water relations
ByIrene J. Klaver, J. Aaron Frith

chapter 33|11 pages

Urban agriculture and environmental imagination

BySamantha Noll

chapter 34|10 pages

Paradox in the city

Urban complications regarding climate change and climate justice 1
ByMichael Goldsby

section Section 5|28 pages

Urban engagements

chapter 35|4 pages

An agora grows in Brooklyn

ByIan Olasov

chapter 36|5 pages

Reaching out to the underrepresented

ByJohn R. Torrey

chapter 37|5 pages

Blurring the boundaries between the classroom and the city

ByStephen Bloch-Schulman

chapter 38|4 pages

Phronesis Lab: practical wisdom in the city

BySharyn Clough

chapter 39|2 pages

Doing field philosophy in the gas fields of Texas

ByAdam Briggle