The caring city : ethics of urban design /
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 in...
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Bristol University Press,
2022.
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Table of 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
- 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
- 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
- Intoduction
- 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
- 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
