THE ETHICS OF METROPOLITAN GROWTH: THE FUTURE OF OUR BUILT ENVIRONMENT
Book ID/图书代码： 12771010B35363
English Summary/英文概要： Issues related to metropolitan growth and environmental change are at the heart of public debate today - this book explores the ethical implications behind this hugely topical contemporary debate. "The Ethics of Metropolitan Growth" is about the decisions people make that shape the built environment, from the everyday concerns of homeowners and commuters to grand gestures of national policy. Decisions about the built environment have taken on a particular urgency in recent months. The financial crisis that began in the home mortgage system, the instability of fuel prices, and long-term projections of oil depletion and climate change are now intertwined with more conventional concerns about metropolitan growth, such as traffic flow and air quality. Now, it would seem, is an excellent time for clear thinking about what the built environment can and should become in the future. Robert Kirkman argues that decisions about how to configure and live within the built environment have ethical dimensions that are sometimes hard to see, questions relating to well-being, justice, and sustainability. This book provides practical guidance for sorting through the ethical implications surrounding metropolitan growth, bringing the most immediate concerns of ordinary people to the centre of environmental ethics. "Think Now" is a new series of books which examines central contemporary social and political issues from a philosophical perspective. These books aim to be accessible, rather than overly technical, bringing philosophical rigour to modern questions which matter the most to us
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 帶您探討我們的城市建構等問題。
當今城市發展以及環境變化，已經日益引起社會公眾的關注，並逐漸成為時下人們的焦點話題，而本書將圍繞著這一時事背後所蘊含的社會道德問題，進行深入集中的探討。
在都市建築環境的構建問題上，小到居民住戶大到國家政策，本書對人們所採取的種種決策方法進行了討論。因為就在近期，金融危機的來臨更加凸顯出了建築環境層面決策的緊迫性。因為房貸市場的混亂正是此次金融風暴的根源，而油價的波動、石油的長期開採加之日益加重的環境問題，使得原本就麻煩不斷的城市擴張問題雪上加霜，更不用說諸如交通規劃以及空氣品質等，那些與普通民生息息相關的日常問題了。
現在是該靜下心來為人們未來的城市構建，尋求一條解決道路的時候了。
作為美國喬治亞理工大學公共政策學院的副教授，本書作者羅伯特.科克曼指出，在城市規劃的過程當中，涉及到民生、公正以及社會穩定等道德方面的問題，但卻往往遭到人們的忽視。
全文以哲學的角度重新對當下核心的社會及政治問題，進行了剖析，它跳出哲學傳統上的陽春白雪，而是以一種淺顯易懂、更加平民化的方式將其中的厲害關係向我們一一進行呈現，引人深思。(AW & SK)
Awards/获奖情况："Kirkman’s book adds an important dimension to environmental debates, counteracting our historicalbias toward wilderness issues - an attitude that has left our daily experiences out of the conversation."---ROBERT FRODEMAN, UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS, USA
About the Author/作者介绍： Robert Kirkman is Associate Professor of Philosophy in the School of Public Policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology, USA. His previous publications include Skeptical Environmentalism: The Limits of Philosophy and Science (Indiana UP, 2002).
羅伯特柯克曼是美國喬治亞理工學校-公共政策學院的哲學副教授。他曾經出版過 “環境主義的存疑：哲學及科學的極限”
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