City

Joseph Grange is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern Maine. He is the author of Nature: An Environmental Cosmology, also published by SUNY Press.

"This brilliant sequel to Nature establishes Grange as one of the leading systematic philosophers of our time. Extending categories introduced generally in that book to interpret the natural world, which of course includes the urban, Grange here makes the categories specific to the city with imaginative and insightful interpretations of urban space, time, place, value, meaning, intelligence, community, justice, and even the place of the philosopher in the city (and the city in the philosopher—remember Plato's Phaedrus). Perhaps the most brilliant structural argument here is Grange's use of Peirce's categories of Firstness, Secondness, and Thirdness to analyze quality, collision, and continuity in the city."What sets this book apart from most philosophical ruminations on the city is the wealth of detail that comes from disciplines beyond the margins of philosophy, from poets to city planners, who present the phenomenology of the city in terms different from Grange's theory. The result, and this book's greatest and most extraordinary strength, is a rich interweaving of philosophy's special analytical resources with senses of the city as others understand it. This is imaginative, socially relevant, aesthetically delightful philosophy at its best, and readers of this book will think about the city with new appreciation and understanding." — Robert Cummings Neville, Boston University

• Preface Introduction: Cosmology and Urban Culture Process and Urban ValuesThe Categoreal SchemeUrban SemioticsNormative ConsciousnessPlan of This Study Abbreviations Part One Cityscape Chapter One: Urban Space The Inscape of Urban SpaceThe Patterns of Urban SpaceThe Symbolic Perception of Urban SpaceThe Felt Transmission of Urban Spatial Values Chapter Two: Urban Time The Inscape of City TimeThe Patterns of City TimeThe Symbolic Perception of Urban TimeThe Value of City Time Chapter Three: Urban Place The Doctrine of Normative MeasureSpace and Time All-at-OnceA Beautiful Place Is Always One and TrueA Still Place Chapter Four: Urban Goodness Kevin Lynch and Normative MeasureThree Normative MeasuresAlexander's New Theory of Urban DesignThe Goodness of the City Part Two Urban Semiotics Chapter Five: Mood, Order, and Sign SurvivalHabitGrowthFelt Intelligence Chapter Six: The Sign of One/Qualitative Value The Importance of OneThe Iconography of the CityThe StreetOriginal Feelings of Freshness Chapter Seven: The Sign of Two/Collision SecondnessThe Urban IndexEmpire SkylineThe Collisions of the Actual Chapter Eight: The Sign of Three/Continuity InvolvementThe Urban SymbolThe NeighborhoodInclusion Part Three Urban Praxis Chapter Nine: Intelligence-in-Action SymbolismCommunicationMeaningIntelligence-in-Action Chapter Ten: Community Something in betweenMaking ConnectionsSharing SymbolsCommunity Is Democracy Chapter Eleven: City Justice Market Place or City Place?The Theology of the Invisible HandSelf-RuleCity Justice Is Democratic Community Chapter Twelve: The Philosopher and the City A Fair and Fitting CityOne Thought/Many Feelings/Three SignsThe Philosopher as Master of Heartfelt ContrastAmerican Philosophy at Work Notes Bibliography Index