Title & Author:

Ethics of the urban : the city and the spaces of the political / edited by Mohsen Mostafavi.

Publication:

Zürich : Lars Müller Publisher ; Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Graduate School of Design, [2017]
©2017

Description:

331 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface / Mohsen Mostafavi -- Agonistic Urbanism / Mohsen Mostafavi -- Night And Day -- Walking Through -- Cities and citizenship -- Beyond Differences of Race, Religion, Class, Class: Making Urban Subjects / Saskia Sassan -- Insurgent Urbanity and the Political City / Erik Swyngedouw -- Performing Play -- The Fair City: Can We Design Neighborhood Equality? / Robert J. Sampson -- Bottom-Up Is Not Enough / Michelle Provoost -- Monuments and memorials -- The Public Image of Demos / Erika Naginski -- Making Monuments -- The Sacred, the Quotidian, and the World Trade Center Memorial / Michael Arad -- Time and Memory -- Art, Trauma, and Parrhesia / Krzysztof Wodicko -- Spiritual Places -- German Visions of Marseille (1926-1943): Modern Stage or Place of Perdition? / Jean-Louis Cohen -- Neighborhoods and Neighborliness -- Urban Protest and the Built Environmental Foundations of Insurgency and Citizenship / Diane E. Davis -- House And Home -- Recycling -- Urban Desolation and Symbolic Denigration in the Hyperghetto / Loïc Wacquant -- Public Space and Public Sphere -- Radical Politics as Counter-Hegemonic Integration: The Role of Cultural Practices / Chantal Mouffe -- Right To The Public -- Matrix Space / Keller Easterling -- Changing Climates -- Protesting Politics -- Borders and Boundaries -- Edges: Self and City / Richard Sennett -- The Ethics of Charter Cities / Gerald Frug -- Moving About -- The New Urban Brazil and Its Margins / Guilherme Wisnik -- Growing Densities -- City Meets Water.

Summary:

"In times where global matters such as the climate, currencies and places of residence become increasingly volatile, the urban public space we live in is an area where power, identity and belonging are negotiated. Cities have always been melting pots of history, society, art and politics, which is why the way a city is shaped tells us a lot about the people who live in it. With contributors from a variety of fields, Ethics of the Urban discusses these urban spaces of the political. "How do we move about the city?", "How does memory of the past inspire the future of cities?" and "What makes a city a home?" are only some of the many questions that Ethics of the Urban addresses. The publication gathers experts from history, sociology, art, political theory, planning, law and design to emphasize the complexity of the meaning that urban space has today. Urban spaces are on one hand political spaces, since buildings, streets and people moving around all mirror political decisions in one way or another. On the other hand, the urban space is also a designed space, conceptualized, planned and sometimes gentrified. Complimented by stunning photography, Ethics of the Urban is a vibrant intellectual journey straight into the bone marrow of every contemporary city around the globe."--Publisher's website.

ISBN:

9783037783818 (paperback)
3037783818 (paperback)

Subject:

City planning Political aspects.
City planning Ethics.
Cities and towns.
Villes.
cities.

Added entries:

Mostafavi, Mohsen, editor.
Mostafavi, Mohsen editor.
Harvard University. Graduate School of Design.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 294724
Call No.: BIB 240544
Status: Available