Philosophy and the City

Keith Jacobs is Professor of Sociology at the University of Tasmania. His publications include: The Dynamics of Local Housing Policy (1999); Experience and Representation: Contemporary Perspectives on Migration in Australia (2011); and House, Home and Society (2016), co-authored with Rowland Atkinson.Jeff Malpas is Distinguished Professor at the University of Tasmania and Visiting Distinguished Professor at Latrobe University. He was founder, and until 2005, Director, of the University of Tasmania’s Centre for Applied Philosophy and Ethics. His many publications include Heidegger and the Thinking of Place (2012), Heidegger's Topology (2006) and Place and Experience (2007).

While philosophy might have begun in the city, this volume asks the more unusual question of what it means to think philosophically about the city – the concepts it enfolds, the modes of life and existence it allows, the histories and future possibilities it engages. Expansive and incisive, this excellent volume situates the city at the centre of our critical and creative reflections.

• On the Philosophy of the City – Keith Jacobs and Jeff MalpasFurther ReadingPart 1: City Concepts: Places, Processes, Structures 1. Capitalism, Form and the Philosophy of the Urban – David Cunningham2. Discourses of the City – Kathleen Flanagan3. The City as Wild – Wendy Steele4. Urban Time and the City as Event – Tony Fry5. The Immanent City – Simon SadlerPart 2: City Landscapes: Experience, History, Identity6. Solar Le Corbusier – Alan Stoekl7. Escaping Modernity: Renaissance Florence and the Rejection of the City – Katie Campbell8. Justice as the Urban Everyday – Wendy Pullan9. Gardens, Cities, and Timescapes in South Asia – Smriti Srinivas10. A Vertical Melbourne – Meg Nethercote11. The City’s Other Face: Modern Ruins and Urban Endings – Emma FraserPart 3: City Futures: Power, Risk, and Value12. Beyond Differences of Race, Class: Making Urban Subjects – Saskia Sassen13. Cities Remade: On Deciding the Fate of Building in the City – Janet Donohoe14. The City as a Construct of Risk and Security – Yosef Jabereen and Efrat Eizenberg15. Philosophies of Commensuration, Value, Worth in the Future City: Rethinking the Interdisciplinary – Michael Keith16. Multiplying Resistance: The Power of the Urban in the Age of National Revanchism – Asma Mehan and Ugo Rossi17. Urban Futures and the Dark Enlightenment – Roger BurrowsBibliographyIndexAbout the Contributors