| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 229 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Front Cover -- The Caring City: Ethics of Urban Design -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- List of figures -- Introduction -- Caring urban design? -- The bones of an argument -- 1 Care as Practice and Ethic Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, Nothing is going to get better. It's not. Dr Seuss, The Lorax -- Introduction -- Care's focus on needs -- Care as relational -- Care as process -- Care as future oriented -- Thinking and studying care -- 2 Care in and through Urban Design -- Introduction -- Caring urban design projects -- Design as caring process |
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3 Placing Care -- Introduction -- Placing care -- The place of care and care ethics -- Urban living in old age: Southwark Almshouse -- Collocated needs: Sargfabrik -- 4 Accessibility in/as Caring -- Introduction -- Access and care in the street: Vienna's Meidlinger Hauptstraße -- Access and care in vertical urbanism: Kampung Admiralty, Singapore -- The care of access -- 5 Shaping Caring Urban Atmospheres -- Introduction -- Atmosphere as an issue for care -- Urban atmospheres and care ethics -- Atmospheric care for children: Gehl's Thrive Zones project |
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Gustafson Porter's Parque Central in Valencia -- 6 Openness and the Unfolding of Care -- Introduction -- Caring, time and materiality -- Openness, design and the city -- Aranya Low Cost Housing, Indore -- Polgarstraße 30a, Vienna -- 7 Continuity, Attachment and Care -- Introduction -- Continuity/discontinuity and place-attachment -- Continuity, care and attachment -- Continuing Leathermarket through infill urbanism -- Design as opposition to demolition of Central Hill estate -- 8 Urban Design as Tending Futures -- Introducing the case studies -- Care as a recognition of dependency |
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Care as future-making practice -- Care in and against the politics and economics of design and development -- Conclusion -- Care ethics as an ethics of urban design -- Particularistic, situated design -- Design that fosters recognition and supports independencies between people and across environments -- Design that reflects and embodies an ethics of care practice -- Designing for the future -- Afterword and Acknowledgements -- Notes -- References -- Index -- Back Cover |
| Summary |
This original study makes a compelling case for a more ethical approach to urban development and management. Countering the conventional, neoliberal thinking of urban planners and academics, it uses case studies to show how a philosophy of caring can promote the wellbeing of our cities' many inhabitants |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based upon online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed May 13, 2022) |
| Subject |
City planning -- Moral and ethical aspects
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City planning -- Moral and ethical aspects
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781529201222 |
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1529201225 |
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9781529201239 |
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1529201233 |
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