1st Edition

Wildness, Justice, and Aesthetics Imaginaries of Future Urban Natures

By Tea Lobo Copyright 2027
316 Pages
by Routledge

This book analyzes the intrinsic value of urban environments in a world where the boundary between the city and the wild is increasingly dissolving. It provides the analytical tools for regarding the city as simultaneously a wild and a civil space.  Due to rapid urbanization, the city is becoming the dominant habitat for people while also engulfing non-human habitats. Animals and plants are... Read more
<p xml:lang="EN-US" lang="EN-US" paraid="1733954239" paraeid="{c6d66363-eeea-422c-aef3-ca4ad1ab8280}{190}">Acknowledgments 

<p xml:lang="EN-US" lang="EN-US" paraid="919004748" paraeid="{c6d66363-eeea-422c-aef3-ca4ad1ab8280}{211}">Glossary  

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<p xml:lang="EN-US" lang="EN-US" paraid="1989347016" paraeid="{c6d66363-eeea-422c-aef3-ca4ad1ab8280}{227}">Introduction  

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<p xml:lang="EN-US" lang="EN-US" paraid="1426280718" paraeid="{c6d66363-eeea-422c-aef3-ca4ad1ab8280}{242}">Part One: Models of City/Nature Relations  

<p xml:lang="EN-US" lang="EN-US" paraid="1421849894" paraeid="{c6d66363-eeea-422c-aef3-ca4ad1ab8280}{250}">Chapter 1.  The City Versus Nature 

<p xml:lang="EN-US" lang="EN-US" paraid="2051752109" paraeid="{5e80664d-7ac9-43f7-afee-4d7eb0c1b0ac}{2}">Chapter 2. The City as Nature in Indigenous Urbanisms  

<p xml:lang="EN-US" lang="EN-US" paraid="615243009" paraeid="{5e80664d-7ac9-43f7-afee-4d7eb0c1b0ac}{10}">Chapter 3. Imaginaries of Future Urban Natures  

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<p xml:lang="EN-US" lang="EN-US" paraid="1148322787" paraeid="{5e80664d-7ac9-43f7-afee-4d7eb0c1b0ac}{25}">Part Two: Normative Problems in Imaginaries of Future Urban Natures  

<p xml:lang="EN-US" lang="EN-US" paraid="1309228669" paraeid="{5e80664d-7ac9-43f7-afee-4d7eb0c1b0ac}{33}">Chapter 4. Justice in Imaginaries of Future Urban Natures  

<p xml:lang="EN-US" lang="EN-US" paraid="614275987" paraeid="{5e80664d-7ac9-43f7-afee-4d7eb0c1b0ac}{41}">Chapter 5. Aesthetics in Imaginaries of Future Urban Natures  

<p xml:lang="EN-US" lang="EN-US" paraid="715111398" paraeid="{5e80664d-7ac9-43f7-afee-4d7eb0c1b0ac}{49}">Chapter 6. Intersections of Ethics and Aesthetics in Future Urban Natures  

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<p xml:lang="EN-US" lang="EN-US" paraid="1585414745" paraeid="{5e80664d-7ac9-43f7-afee-4d7eb0c1b0ac}{64}">Conclusion  

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<p xml:lang="EN-US" lang="EN-US" paraid="861872994" paraeid="{5e80664d-7ac9-43f7-afee-4d7eb0c1b0ac}{72}">Bibliography  

<p xml:lang="EN-US" lang="EN-US" paraid="1171382272" paraeid="{5e80664d-7ac9-43f7-afee-4d7eb0c1b0ac}{80}">Index 

Biography

Tea Lobo is a lecturer (Privatdozentin) at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, Switzerland. She researches philosophy of the city, as well technology and environmental ethics and aesthetics. She is the author of “A Picture Held Us Captive”: On Aisthesis and Interiority in Ludwig Wittgenstein, Fyodor M. Dostoevsky and W. G. Sebald (2019).

Wildness, Justice, and Aesthetics is highly original, fascinating, beautifully written, and very thoroughly researched.”

Jonathan Wolff, Wolfson College, University of Oxford, UK

“This is a fantastic book. It is rich in content, exciting, novel in its argument, and, on top of everything, well-written.”

Avner de Shalit, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel