THE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF PHILOSOPHY OF THE CITY

<p><em>The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of the City</em> 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 <em>Handbook</em> is divided into clear sections addressing the following central topics:</p><p>• Historical Philosophical Engagements with Cities</p><p>• Modern and Contemporary Philosophical Theories of the City</p><p>• Urban Aesthetics</p><p>• Urban Politics</p><p>• Citizenship</p><p>• Urban Environments and the Creation/Destruction of Place.</p><p>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. </p><p>Essential reading for students and researchers in environmental philosophy, aesthetics, and political philosophy, <i>The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of the City </i>is also a useful resource for those in related fields, such as geography, urban studies, sociology, and political science.</p> <p>Introduction <i>Samantha Noll, Sharon Meagher, and Joseph Biehl </i><b>Part 1: Urban Philosophies Section 1: Historical Philosophical Engagements with Cities </b>1. Plato's City-Soul Analogy: The Slow Train to Ordinary Virtue <i>Nathan Nicol </i>2. Philosophers and the City in Early Modern Europe <i>Ferenc Hörcher </i>3. Pragmatic Engagement in the City: Philosophy as a Means for Catalyzing Collective, Creative Capacity (Lessons from John Dewey and Jane Addams) <i>Danielle Lake</i> 4. Back to the Cave <i>Joseph S. Biehl </i><b>Section 2: Modern and Contemporary Philosophical Theories of the City </b>5. Urban Philosophy in Walter Benjamin’s <i>Arcades Project</i> <i>Frank Cunningham </i>6. Henri Lefebvre and the Right to the City <i>Loren King </i>7. Foucault and Urban Philosophy <i>Kevin Scott Jobe</i> 8. Iris Young’s City of Difference <i>Elizabeth Purcell </i><b>Part 2: Philosophical Engagement with Urban Issues Section 1: Urban Aesthetics </b>9. Urban Planning and Design as an Aesthetic Dilemma: Void vs. Volume in City-form <i>Abraham Akkerman </i>10. Architecture and Philosophy of the City <i>Saul Fisher</i> 11. A Philosophy of Urban Parks <i>Amanda Meyer and Charles Taliaferro</i> 12. Political Aesthetics of Public Art in Urban Spaces <i>Fred Evans</i> 13. Walking the City: Flânerie and Flâneurs <i>Kathryn Kramer and John Rennie Short </i>14. How Might Creative Placemaking Lead to More Just Cities? <i>Sharon M. Meagher </i><b>Section 2: Urban Politics </b>15. Beyond Deliberation and Civic Engagement: Participatory Budgeting and a New Philosophy of Public Power <i>Alexander Kolokotronis and Michael Menser </i>16. Constructing Communities in Urban Spaces <i>Brian Elliot </i>17. Houselessness <i>Kevin Scott Jobe</i> 18. On Residential Segregation, Desegregation, Integration in Political Philosophy <i>Ronald Sundstrom </i>19. Gentrification <i>Tyler Zimmer </i>20. The Occupy Movement and he Reappearance of the Polis <i>Chad Kautzer </i><b>Section 3: Citizenship </b>21. City and Common Space <i>Paula Cristina Pereira </i>22. The Concept of Public Space <i>Brian A. Weiner</i> 23. From Good to Progressive Planning or What is a Good City? <i>Peter Marcuse </i>24. Hospitality in Sanctuary Cities <i>Benjamin Boudou </i>25. Black Lives Matter and the Ferguson Moment: Toward a Philosophy of Urban Relegation <i>Paul C. Taylor </i>26. Nature Where You’re Not: Rethinking Environmental Spaces and Racism <i>Esme G. Murdock </i>27. Ghost Cities: Globalization, Neo-Capitalist Speculation, and the Empty Cities of the Global South <i>Sharon M. Meagher </i><b>Section 4: Urban Environments and the Creation/Destruction of Place </b>28. Metropolitan Growth <i>Robert Kirkman</i> 29. Environmental Philosophy in the City: Confronting the Anti-Urban Bias to Overcome the Human-Nature Divide <i>Alexandria K. Poole </i>30. Zoöpolis: Animals in the City <i>Cynthia Willett </i>31. Urban Mobility Systems <i>Shane Epting </i>32. The Endeavor to Embody Urban Waters: Technical/Political Governmentality of Green Infrastructure and the Emergence of New Human-Water Relations <i>Irene J. Klaver and J. Aaron Frith </i>33. Urban Agriculture and Environmental Imagination <i>Samantha Noll </i>34. Paradox in the City: Urban Complications Regarding Climate Change and Climate Justice <i>Michael Goldsby </i><b>Section 5: Urban Engagements </b>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. The 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. <i>Index</i></p>