Description
What can justice and sustainability mean, pragmatically speaking, in today’s cities? Can justice be the basis on which the practices of city building rely? Can this recognition constitute sustainability in city building, from a pragmatic perspective? Today, we are faced with a mountain of reasons to lose hope in any prospect of moving closer to justice and sustainability from our present position in civilization.
Pragmatic Justifications for the Sustainable City: Acting in the Common Place offers a critical and philosophical approach to revaluating the way in which we think and talk about the "sustainable city" to ensure that we neither lose the thread of our urban history, nor the means to live well amidst diversity of all kinds. By building and rebuilding better habits of urban thinking, this book promotes the reconstruction of moral thinking, paving the way for a new urban sustainability model of justice.
Utilizing multidisciplinary case studies and building upon anti-foundationalist principles, this book offers a pragmatic interpretation of sustainable development concepts within our emerging global urban context and will be a valuable resource for both undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as academics and professionals in the areas of urban and planning policy, sociology, and urban and environmental geography.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Foreword
PART I.
Chapter 1 Our starting point: sustainability and justice made urban
Chapter 2 Sustainability as a slippery and a sticky concept
Chapter 3 Celebrating the city, for all the wrong reasons?
PART II.
Prelude: An urban way forward in a pragmatic view
Chapter 4 An urban shot at authenticity
Chapter 5 Empowerment in urban communities
Chapter 6 Risk and resilience
Chapter 7 Conclusion: A better urban life to be lived
Index
