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.
Highlights
In old academic culture and in the academic publications of the 17th and early 18th centuries, theology and philosophy were the dominant subjects, and within philosophy there was probably no topic more popular than ethics
In the collective production of the atlas both professionals and laymen develop possible future scenarios on the basis of competing ideas and where the technique itself, and the example of ‘real-time’ urban planning process, contributes to the advance of urban planning. The articles of this issue present different openings into urban ethics and suggest different themes and questions worthy of further interrogation. We have made it clear that new materialities and design solutions are always accompanied by new ethical issues and concerns
We have highlighted different aspects involved in the design and ethics of community building
Summary
In old academic culture and in the academic publications of the 17th and early 18th centuries, theology and philosophy were the dominant subjects, and within philosophy there was probably no topic more popular than ethics. Other disciplines such as the natural sciences, medicine, and the social sciences took over, and ethics—once one of the more important topics in most universities—started to play a much less prominent role. Our everyday morale is never produced by us alone—our intentions are not formed outside the world but in the middle of it
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