| Description |
1 online resource (225 pages) : illustrations (colour) |
| Series |
Governance and citizenship in Asia |
| Contents |
Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: The Values and Limitations of the Rights Approach to Urban Controversies -- Part I: Conflict of Rights in Urban Issues -- Chapter 3: Sub-Divided Units: Property Rights and Market versus Right to Housing -- Chapter 4: The Rights of Hong Kongs Indigenous Inhabitants: A Comparative Perspective -- Chapter 5: Should Heritage Preservation Trump Protection of Private Property Right? -- Chapter 6: Conceptions of Toleration and Right to Public Space -- Chapter 7: Familial StrangersControversies in Migrant Rights in Hong Kong -- Part II: Rights, Interest and Well-being of Human and Non-human Entities -- Chapter 8: When Doing a Rights Talk Isnt Doing the Right Thing: Defining the Urban Space for Stray Dogs and Cats -- Chapter 9: An Examination of the Multiple Approaches by Which the Rights and Worth of Urban Trees May Be Defended: The Case of Stonewall Trees in Hong Kong -- Chapter 10: Reconciling Human Development with Natures Rights: The Role of Urban Public Park in the Age of Neo-Liberalism -- Chapter 11: Pursuing Unity or Creating Disunity? An East-West Complementary Approach to Urban Controversies Related to the Right to Environment -- Chapter 12: Conclusion |
| Summary |
This book examines the ethics in relation to city and urbanism by evaluating the strengths and limitations of rights as a conceptual tool from the comparative EastWest perspective in resolving urban controversies (involving conflicts of rights between different classes, different groups within the present generation, present vs future generations, human vs animals, human vs plants and nature), thereby facilitating urban policy-making and good urban governance. This book adopts an interdisciplinary approach integrating political theory, ethics, urban studies, public policy, making applications of ethics and political philosophy to social sciences to examine controversial urban issues in the Hong Kong context. It challenges the general conception that philosophy and ethics are detached from everyday life, with the philosophers engaging mainly in abstract intellectual pursuit and some of them even disdaining pedestrian applications of abstract thinking. This book makes applications of ethics and political philosophy to real-life urban contexts in Hong Kong, thereby trying to highlight the normative in order to throw new light to the general approach and strategy to deal with practical urban issues, facilitating out-of-the-box thinking in the field of housing and urban studies, stimulating scholars, researchers, and students in the fields, urban planners, urban managers, and other professionals as well as urban policy-makers |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 07, 2023) |
| Subject |
Civil rights -- China -- Hong Kong
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City and town life -- Moral and ethical aspects -- China -- Hong Kong
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Civil rights
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China -- Hong Kong
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Yung, Betty, editor
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Mok, Francis K. T., editor.
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Wong, Baldwin, editor
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| ISBN |
9789819912728 |
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9819912725 |
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