Urban Ethics Under Conditions of Crisis: Politics, Architecture, Landscape Sustainability and Multidisciplinary Engineering

Urban Ethics under Conditions of Crisis investigates the states of urban planning, architectural design, sustainability, landscape architecture, and engineering, and examines their correlation to social attitudes and dispositions that can impact on socio-cultural and political engagement internationally in conditions of crisis. The theme of the book emphasizes the need to acknowledge the controversial character of contemporary social life under critical social conditions, in correlation to urban space. It concerns the evaluation of critical issues such as: Urban development as ethical question, Urban environment and urban landscape ethics, related to interpretation, preservation, and management of urban space and to the dubious dichotomy between the "cultural" and "natural" character of cities, and The ethics of the urbanized Western world in comparison to the non-western periphery.