Philosophy of the City Bibliography Project

Books

The Philosophy of Urban Existence - Arthur Bierman

 

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

and Avener de-Shalit

 

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

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Urban Enlightenment: Multistakeholder Engagement and the City - Shane Epting

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

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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

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


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.).

 

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Journal Articles and Book Chapters

 

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.

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

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

Gentrification

 

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

 

On Philosophy of the City

 

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

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Urban Resilience

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

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Transportation

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

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Urban Aesthetics

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

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Urban Technologies

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

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