Ethics, Design and Planning of the Built Environment

✍ Scribed by Ernest R. Alexander (auth.), Claudia Basta, Stefano Moroni (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 227
• Series: Urban and Landscape Perspectives 12
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The book proposes a set of original contributions in research areas shared by planning theory, architectural research, design and ethical inquiry. The contributors gathered in 2010 at the Ethics of the Built Environment seminar organized by the editors at Delft University of Technology. Both prominent and emerging scholars presented their researches in the areas of aesthetics, technological risks, planning theory and architecture. The scope of the seminar was highlighting shared lines of ethical inquiry among the themes discussed, in order to identify perspectives of innovative interdisciplinary research. After the seminar all seminar participants have elaborated their proposed contributions. Some of the most prominent international authors in the field were subsequently invited to join in with this inquiry.

Claudia Basta teaches "Network Infrastructures and Mobility" at Wageningen University. Between 2009 and 2011 she worked as Coordinator of the 3TU Centre of Excellence for Ethics and Technology of Delft University, where she completed her post-doc research on the shared areas of investigation between risk theories, planning theories and ethical inquiry. Her main research interests concern the matter of assessing and governing technological risks in relation to sustainable land use planning. She wrote a number of journal articles and contributions to collective books on these themes.

Stefano Moroni teaches “Land use ethics and the law” at Milan Politecnico. His main research interests concern planning theory and ethics. He is the author of a number of books and journal articles. Recent publications (as co-author): Contractual Communities in the Self-Organizing City (Springer 2012).

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Values in Planning and Design: A Process Perspective on Ethics in Forming the Built Environment....Pages 3-22
A Conversation About Who’s In? Who’s Out? And Who Answers Those Questions When Planning for and Designing the Downtown....Pages 23-43
The Relevance of Public Space: Rethinking Its Material and Political Aspects....Pages 45-55
Architects on Value: Reducing Ethics to Aesthetics?....Pages 57-75
Front Matter....Pages 77-77
Architecture as an Object of Research: Incorporating Ethical Questions in Design Thinking....Pages 79-91
Aesthetics as a Risk Factor in Designing Architecture....Pages 93-105
Cost-Benefit Analysis and Evaluating Transport Safety Effects: A Discussion from the Perspective of Ethics....Pages 107-124
Urban In/Justice....Pages 125-132
Front Matter....Pages 133-133
Architecture and Value-Sensitive Design....Pages 135-141
Designing for Meaning: The Designer’s Ethical Responsibility....Pages 143-166
Risk, Space, and Distributive Justice....Pages 167-183
City Planning and Animals: Expanding Our Urban Compassion Footprint....Pages 185-195
Back Matter....Pages 197-224

✦ Subjects

Earth Sciences, general; Cities, Countries, Regions; Ethics; Aesthetics