Moritz Ege/Johannes Moser 2020 (Hg.): Urban Ethics. Conflicts over the ‘Good’ and ‘Proper’ Life in Cities.

Moritz Ege/Johannes Moser 2020 (Hg.): Urban Ethics. Conflicts over the ‘Good’ and ‘Proper’ Life in Cities. London/New York: Routledge, 320 S. ISBN 9780367338428

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.

Table of Contents
Part 1: Configurations of Ethics and the Urban - Concepts and Theories

1. Introduction: Urban Ethics – Conflicts over the Good and Proper Life in Cities
Moritz Ege and Johannes Moser

2. The Habitat of the Subject: Exploring New Forms of the Ethical Imagination
Henrietta Moore

3. The City as a Setting for Collaboration? Tracking the Multiple Scales of Urban Promises
Alexa Färber

Part 2: Shifting Ethics of the Urban: Historical Case Studies

4. Mégapoles, Polyrhythmy, Porosity: Tracing Ideas of Mediterranean Urbanity in Western ScholarlyDdiscourse
Martin Baumeister

5. Urbanity as an Ethic: Reflections on the Cities of the Arab World
Nora Lafi

6. The Fractious Stability of an Immoral Landscape: The Land Walls of Istanbul, 1910 to 1980
Julia Strutz & Christoph Neumann

7. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Bucharest’s Urban Core as a Moral Playground
Daniel Habit

8. 1968 and Beyond. The Urban Struggle on Trial?
Isabelle Doucet

Part 3: Building and Living Ethically – Conflicts over Housing and Architecture

9. Shaping Urban Ethics. The ‘Making-of’ a Collective Housing Project at Berlin’s River Spree
Max Ott

10. Commitment ‒ City ‒ Self. Ethical Self-formations in Munich’s Young Housing Cooperatives
Laura Gozzer

11. Antagonisms and Solidarities in Housing Movements in Bucharest and Budapest
Ioana Florea, Agnes Gagyi, Kerstin Jacobsson

12. Ethical Contestation in Architecture for a Creative Singapore
Michaela Busenkell

Part 4: Environmental Justice, Ethics of Care and the Spectacle of Urban Sustainability

13. Reimagining Urban Environmentalisms: A Comparative Framework
Julie Sze

14. Handling Waste through Consensus, Care and Community in Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand
Jeannine-Madeleine Fischer

Part 5: Protest between Ethics and Politics: Collective Agents of Urban Change

15. Keep the City Clean. The Ambivalent Ethics of Ownership in Urban Routine and Non-Violent Protest in Moscow
Alexander Bikbov

16. Guardians of Torfjanka Park: The Fight for "Our Moscow" and the Understanding of "Ordinary People" in the Current Conjuncture
Olga Reznikova

17. "They are stealing the state": Commoning and the Gilets Jaunes in France
Ida Susser

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