The Routledge handbook of philosophy of the city / edited by Sharon M. Meagher, Samantha Noll, and Joseph S. Biehl.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction Samantha Noll, Sharon Meagher, and Joseph BiehlPart 1: Urban PhilosophiesSection 1: Historical Philosophical Engagements with Cities1. Plato's City-Soul Analogy: The Slow Train to Ordinary Virtue Nathan Nicol 2. Philosophers and the City in Early Modern Europe Ferenc Hoercher 3. Pragmatic Engagement in the City: Philosophy as a Means for Catalyzing Collective, Creative Capacity (Lessons from John Dewey and Jane Addams) Danielle Lake 4. Back to the Cave Joseph S. Biehl Section 2: Modern and Contemporary Philosophical Theories of the City5. Urban Philosophy in Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project Frank Cunningham 6. Henri Lefebvre and the Right to the City Loren King 7. Foucault and Urban Philosophy Kevin Scott Jobe 8. Iris Young's City of Difference Elizabeth Purcell Part 2: Philosophical Engagement with Urban IssuesSection 1: Urban Aesthetics9. Urban Planning and Design as an Aesthetic Dilemma: Void vs. Volume in City-form Abraham Akkerman 10. Architecture and Philosophy of the City Saul Fisher 11. A Philosophy of Urban Parks Amanda Meyer and Charles Taliaferro 12. Political Aesthetics of Public Art in Urban Spaces Fred Evans 13. Walking the City: Flanerie and Flaneurs Kathryn Kramer and John Rennie Short 14. How Might Creative Placemaking Lead to More Just Cities? Sharon M. MeagherSection 2: Urban Politics15. Beyond Deliberation and Civic Engagement: Participatory Budgeting and a New Philosophy of Public Power Alexander Kolokotronis and Michael Menser 16. Constructing Communities in Urban Spaces Brian Elliot 17. Houselessness Kevin Scott Jobe 18. On Residential Segregation, Desegregation, Integration in Political Philosophy Ronald Sundstrom 19. Gentrification Tyler Zimmer 20. The Occupy Movement and he Reappearance of the Polis Chad KautzerSection 3: Citizenship21. City and Common Space Paula Cristina Pereira 22. The Concept of Public Space Brian A. Weiner 23. From Good to Progressive Planning or What is a Good City? Peter Marcuse 24. Hospitality in Sanctuary Cities Benjamin Boudou25. Black Lives Matter and the Ferguson Moment: Toward a Philosophy of Urban Relegation Paul C. Taylor26. Nature Where You're Not: Rethinking Environmental Spaces and Racism Esme G. Murdock27. Ghost Cities: Globalization, Neo-Capitalist Speculation, and the Empty Cities of the Global South Sharon M. Meagher Section 4: Urban Environments and the Creation/Destruction of Place28. Metropolitan Growth Robert Kirkman 29. Environmental Philosophy in the City: Confronting the Anti-Urban Bias to Overcome the Human-Nature Divide Alexandria K. Poole 30. Zooepolis: Animals in the City Cynthia Willett 31. Urban Mobility Systems Shane Epting 32. The Endeavor to Embody Urban Waters: Technical/Political Governmentality of Green Infrastructure and the Emergence of New Human-Water Relations Irene J. Klaver and J. Aaron Frith33. Urban Agriculture and Environmental Imagination Samantha Noll34. Paradox in the City: Urban Complications Regarding Climate Change and Climate Justice Michael GoldsbySection 5: Urban Engagements35. 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-Schulman38. The Phronesis Lab: Practical Wisdom in the City: An interview with Sharyn Clough39. Doing Field Philosophy in the Gas Fields of Texas: An Interview with Adam Briggle40. Engaging Cities at Home and Abroad: Connecting our Students with Urban Communities: An interview with Sarah Donovan.Index