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This book offers an original perspective on food supply chains. It
argues that the ability to trade food on a global scale could be
intrinsically good aside from any instrumental value that people
gain from it.
This book applies the concept of moral ordering to urban affairs.
It demonstrates how multi-stakeholder engagement can enhance the
quality of city life while supporting ambitions such as ethical
urban sustainability and human flourishing.
Cities' transportation systems affect people, ecosystems, and
future generations, and they increase tensions between historical
preservation, social justice concerns, and future needs. In turn,
all of these factors deserve consideration, but not equally. A just
and moral way forward must prioritize values in how we give
preference in planning decisions. Shane Epting illustrates that the
problem of "moral prioritization" rests at the heart of these
problems. To overcome such challenges, he develops a multi-tiered
assessment system that shows how to evaluate complicated affairs in
urban mobility. This book brings philosophical underpinnings of
public works into full view, showing how the love of wisdom
benefits the ongoing and future transportation issues of our
increasingly urbanized world.
This book makes the case that several urban technologies contribute
to wicked problems such as climate change and vast social and
economic inequalities. Such situations often create unfavorable
conditions for mental life in cities. These conditions force us to
expand the taxonomy of technology to include new designations:
"wicked" and "saving" technologies. Epting holds that the latter
can support worthwhile goals such as socially just urban
sustainability. Along with fleshing out this view, he provides
concrete examples of saving technologies, which include cohousing
initiatives, ariel cable cars, participatory budgeting, and
car-free zones/cities.
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