Ethical cities

Rationale for ethical cities -- The right to the city -- Ethics and the city -- Who shapes the ethical city? -- Assessment of the ethical city -- Competitive, liveable and fragile cities -- Relentless disruption -- Building ethical cities -- Transitioning to ethical cities.

Rationale for ethical city -- The right to the city -- Ethics and the city -- Who shapes the ethical city? -- Assessment of the ethical city -- Competitive, liveable and fragile cities -- Relentless disruption -- Building ethical cities -- Ethical urban futures.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- 1 Rationale for ethical cities -- What is an ethical city? -- How did we get here? -- Collective endeavours -- Ethical approach to urbanisation -- Disconnects between values and cities today -- Origins of the ethical city -- Revealing the invisible -- Outline of the book -- 2 The right to the city -- Slow emergence of a panoply of rights -- Henri Lefebvre and the rise of critical urbanism -- Influence of the right to the city movement -- The right to the city: where to next? -- Rights to the ethical city -- 3 Ethics and the city -- Searching for ethical urban futures -- Ethics in contemporary cities -- Rebuilding on ethical foundations -- Normative ethics -- Consequentialism -- Deontological ethics (non-consequentialism) -- Virtue ethics -- Non-normative ethics -- Is it too late? -- 4 Who shapes the ethical city? -- Re-configuring cities as ethical -- Ethical leadership of ideas -- Ethical urbanists -- Ethical practitioners in inclusive communities -- Ethical community entrepreneurs -- Challenges confronting ethical city shapers -- Prospects for ethical city shaping -- 5 Assessment of the ethical city -- Localisation of the Sustainable Development Goals -- Voluntary local reviews -- How do we assess progress towards the ethical city? -- What to measure and how? -- Need for ethical engagement around the SDGs -- 6 Competitive, liveable and fragile cities -- Situationism, structure and agency -- Orientation 1: globally competitive alpha cities -- Orientation 2: urban liveability -- Orientation 3: fragile cities -- Orientation 4: fightback cities - fearless, rebellious and/or ethical -- 7 Relentless disruption -- Utopian and dystopian cities -- Mega-trends.