Philosophy of the City Bibliography Project

Books

The Spirit of Cities: Why the Identity of a City Matters in a Global Age - Daniel Bell

and Avener de-Shalit

The Philosophy of Urban Existence - Arthur Bierman

Uncertainty, Innovation and the City: Philosophical Explorations. - Daniele Chiffi and Stefano Moroni

Walking Together Challenging Philosophical and Ethnographic Paradigms from the Ground Up - Anna Bloom-Cristen

Constructing Community: Configurations of the Social in Contemporary Philosophy and Urbanism -Brian Elliott

Meaning in the Metropolis: Toward an Urban Existentialism - Shane Epting

Urban Enlightenment: Multistakeholder Engagement and the City - Shane Epting

The Morality of Urban Mobility: Technology and Philosophy of the City - Shane Epting

Saving Cities: A Taxonomy of Urban Technologies - Shane Epting

City Living: How Urban Spaces and Urban Dwellers Make One Another - Quill Kukla

We Decide!: Theories and Cases in Participatory Democracy - Michael Menser

The Spatial Contract: A new politics of provision for an urbanized planet - Schafran, Alex, Stephen Hall, and Matthew Noah Smith

Just Shelter: Gentrification, Integration, Race, and Reconstruction - Ronald Sundstrom

City of Equals - Jonathan Wolff and Avner de Shalit.

Edited Collections

Making Sense of the City: Public Spaces in the Philippines, R. Barbaza (Ed.).

The Routledge Philosophy of the City Handbook, S. Noll, J. Biehl, and S. Meagher (Eds.).

Philosophy and the city: classic to contemporary writings, S. Meagher (Ed.)

Technology and the City: Towards a Philosophy of Urban Technologies, M. Nagenborg et al.

Common Good Vol. 1 Philosophy of the City – Ethical and Political Challenges - Paula Cristina Pereira

Journal Articles and Book Chapters

Agency and the City

Howell, Whitney. "The environmental conditions of agency: John Dewey and Jane Jacobs on diversity and the modern urban landscape." JSP: Journal of Speculative Philosophy 32, no. 2 (2018): 263-284.

Defining Cities

Gordon, Lewis. "Cities and Citizenship,” The Kettering Review 34, no. 1 (Fall 2017): 36–43.

Varzi, Achille C. "What is a City?." Topoi 40, no. 2 (2021): 399-408.

Epting, Shane. "On the Claim that Cities Do Not Exist: What Can It Reveal?." Philosophy and Global Affairs 4, no. 1 (2024): 153-176.

Epting, Shane. "On municipalities as technologies." Philosophy & Technology 34, no. 4 (2021): 863-873.

Ecology in the City

Barak, Nir. "Civic ecologism: Environmental politics in cities." Ethics, Policy & Environment 23, no. 1 (2020): 53-69.

Barak, N. (2020). Ecological city-zenship. Environmental Politics, 29(3), 479-499.

Barak, Nir. "Cities and nature: Conceptualizations, normativity and political analysis." In The Palgrave Handbook of Environmental Politics and Theory, pp. 385-405. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2023.

Gentrification

Zimmer, Tyler. "Gentrification and the racialization of space." Philosophy & Social Criticism 48, no. 2 (2022): 268-288.

The Home and Housing Issues

Epting, Shane. "The Ethics of House Flipping." International Journal of Applied Philosophy 38, no. 2 (2024): 303-318.

Jacobson, Kristen. Philosophical Perspectives on Home, Editor(s): Susan J. Smith, International Encyclopedia of Housing and Home, Elsevier, 2012, Pages 178-182

Rudow, Brooke. "The Focality of Maintenance and the Making of Home." Techne: Research in Philosophy & Technology 29 (2025).

On Philosophy of the City

Simon, Jules. "Introducing Philosophy of the City." Topoi no. 40 (2021): 387–398.

Rationality

Easwaran, Kenny. "The concept of rationality for a city." Topoi 40, no. 2 (2021): 409-421.

Self and the City

Howell, Whitney. "Anonymity and diversity: A phenomenology of self-formation in urban culture." Topoi 40, no. 2 (2021): 471-480.

Teaching Philosophy of the City

Erion, Gerald J. "Teaching Philosophy of the City." Teaching Philosophy 41, no. 2 (2018): 137–150.

Transportation

Epting, Shane, and David Beisecker. "Bicycle Infrastructure in Las Vegas: A'Thought Experiment’." Public Philosophy Journal 3, no. 2 (2020): 1.

Epting, Shane. "Ethics in transportation innovation: the case of neighborhood electric vehicles and municipal partnerships." Journal of Ethics in Entrepreneurship and Technology 5, no. 2 (2025): 140-154.

Stevens, Savannah. 2025. “Morality and Sidewalk Safety: Pedestrians as Marginalized Population.” Public Philosophy Journal 7 (1). https://doi.org/10.59522/OKQP9414.

Urban Aesthetics

Lobo, Tea. "Urban Kinaesthetics." Contemporary Aesthetics 8 (2020).

Urban Agriculture

Noll, Samantha. "History lessons: What urban environmental ethics can learn from nineteenth century cities." Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 28, no. 1 (2015): 143-159.

Noll, Samantha E. "Food sovereignty in the city: Challenging historical barriers to food justice." In Food Justice in US and Global Contexts: Bringing Theory and Practice Together, pp. 95-111. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017.

Noll, Samantha. "Urban agriculture and environmental imagination." In The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of the City, pp. 379-389. Routledge, 2019.

Urban Resilience

Nagenborg, Michael. "Urban resilience and distributive justice." Sustainable and resilient infrastructure 4, no. 3 (2019): 103-111.

Urban Technologies

Nagenborg, Michael. "Urban robotics and responsible urban innovation." Ethics and Information Technology 22, no. 4 (2020): 345-355.

Urban Wildlife

Delon, Nicolas. "Pervasive captivity and urban wildlife." Ethics, Policy & Environment 23, no. 2 (2020): 123-143.

Michelfelder, Diane. "Urban wildlife ethics." Environmental Ethics 40, no. 2 (2018): 101-117.

Edited Journals Special Issues

Introducing Philosophy of the City, Topoi, Volume 40

The Philosophical Dimensions of Urban Transportation, Essays in Philosophy Vol 20, No. 2.

Philosophy of the City and Environmental Ethics, Environmental Ethics Vol. 40, No. 2.

Philosophy of the City, East Asian Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 3, No. 1.

Philosophy of the City, Kritike, Vo1. 18, No. 3/

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