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Creating Future Cities: Technology, Ethics, and the Fight for the Good Life book cover

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Creating Future Cities Technology, Ethics, and the Fight for the Good Life

By Shane Epting Copyright 2026
172 Pages
by Routledge

172 Pages
by Routledge
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This book fleshes out the idea that everything about the city involves a fight for the good life. From how we conceptualize it to its streets and the fiber-optic cables beneath them, nothing is excluded from creating the cities we want to call home. In turn, this book continues Shane Epting’s ideas developed in  Urban Enlightenment  and  Meaning in the Metropolis . It begins with... Read more

1. Introduction  2. The Fight for the City as a Concept  3. The Fight for City Power  4. The Fight for Land’s Moral Utility  5. The Fight for the Street  6. The Fight for the Future  7. The Fight for Resilience  8. The Fight for the City

Biography

Shane Epting is an associate professor of philosophy at the Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA. Some of his books include Meaning in the Metropolis: Towards an Urban Existentialism (Routledge, 2024), Urban Enlightenment: Multistakeholder Engagement and the City (Routledge, 2023), The Morality of Urban Mobility: Technology and Philosophy of the City (2021), and Saving Cities: A Taxonomy of Urban Technologies (2021).

"Shane Epting, in Creating Future Cities, insightfully analyzes complex normative challenges in urban planning and design—from organizing urban residents' political power to building for resilience—and passionately argues that citizens of cities must fight for their cities and their futures."

Ronald R. Sundstrom, University of San Francisco, USA

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