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Built Environment, Ethics and Everyday Life

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  • Mattias Kärrholm

    (Department of Architecture and Built Environment, Lund University, Sweden)

  • Sandra Kopljar

    (Department of Architecture and Built Environment, Lund University, Sweden)

Abstract

In the wake of global crises concerning, for example, inequalities, migration, pandemics, and the environment, ethical concerns have come to the fore. In this thematic issue, we are especially interested in the role that the planning, design, and materialities of the built environment can take in relation to ethics, and we present four different openings or themes into urban ethics that we also think are worthy of further interrogation. First of all, we suggest that new ethics evolve around new materialities, i.e., urban development and new design solutions are always accompanied by new ethical issues that we need to tackle. Secondly, we highlight different aspects involved in the design and ethics of community building. Thirdly, we address the issue of sustainable planning by pointing to some its shortcomings, and especially the need to addressing ethical concerns in a more coherent way. Finally, we point to the need to further investigate communication, translation, and influence in participatory design processes. Taken together, we hope that this issue—by highlighting these themes in a series of different articles—can inspire further studies into the much needed field of investigation that is urban ethics.

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  • Mattias Kärrholm & Sandra Kopljar, 2020. "Built Environment, Ethics and Everyday Life," Urban Planning, Cogitatio Press, vol. 5(4), pages 101-105.
    • Handle: RePEc:cog:urbpla:v5:y:2020:i:4:p:101-105
    DOI: 10.17645/up.v5i4.3759
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    1. Pernilla Hagbert & Josefin Wangel & Loove Broms, 2020. "Exploring the Potential for Just Urban Transformations in Light of Eco-Modernist Imaginaries of Sustainability," Urban Planning, Cogitatio Press, vol. 5(4), pages 204-216.
    2. Misagh Mottaghi & Mattias Kärrholm & Catharina Sternudd, 2020. "Blue-Green Solutions and Everyday Ethicalities: Affordances and Matters of Concern in Augustenborg, Malmö," Urban Planning, Cogitatio Press, vol. 5(4), pages 132-142.
    3. Barbara Roosen & Liesbeth Huybrechts & Oswald Devisch & Pieter Van den Broeck, 2020. "Dialectical Design Dialogues: Negotiating Ethics in Participatory Planning by Building a Critical Design Atlas," Urban Planning, Cogitatio Press, vol. 5(4), pages 238-251.
    4. Shelly Cohen & Yael Allweil, 2020. "Towards Non-Ageist Housing and Caring in Old Age," Urban Planning, Cogitatio Press, vol. 5(4), pages 155-170.
    5. Paulina Prieto de la Fuente, 2020. "Guilt-Tripping: On the Relation between Ethical Decisions, Climate Change and the Built Environment," Urban Planning, Cogitatio Press, vol. 5(4), pages 193-203.
    6. Gunnar Sandin, 2020. "Lack of Participatory Effort: On the Ethics of Communicating Urban Planning," Urban Planning, Cogitatio Press, vol. 5(4), pages 227-237.
    7. Sandra Kopljar, 2020. "Big Science, Ethics, and the Scalar Effects of Urban Planning," Urban Planning, Cogitatio Press, vol. 5(4), pages 217-226.
    8. Mervyn Horgan & Saara Liinamaa & Amanda Dakin & Sofia Meligrana & Meng Xu, 2020. "A Shared Everyday Ethic of Public Sociability: Outdoor Public Ice Rinks as Spaces for Encounter," Urban Planning, Cogitatio Press, vol. 5(4), pages 143-154.
    9. Shelly Cohen & Yael Allweil, 2020. "Towards Non-Ageist Housing and Caring in Old Age," Urban Planning, Cogitatio Press, vol. 5(4), pages 155-170.
    10. Paulina Prieto de la Fuente, 2020. "Guilt-Tripping: On the Relation between Ethical Decisions, Climate Change and the Built Environment," Urban Planning, Cogitatio Press, vol. 5(4), pages 193-203.
    11. Ebba Högström & Chris Philo, 2020. "Ontological Boundaries or Contextual Borders: The Urban Ethics of the Asylum," Urban Planning, Cogitatio Press, vol. 5(4), pages 106-120.
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