Overview
- Unique coverage of the interplay between technologies and the city from a philosophical perspective
- Can be used as a supplemental text within philosophy, urban planning, and engineering programs
- Goes beyond the limited focus of privacy concerns and the trolley problem toward a philosophy of the smart and just city
Part of the book series: Philosophy of Engineering and Technology (POET, volume 36)
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Table of contents (21 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Ontological Foundations: City-Technology Relations
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Responsible Design of Urban Technologies
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About this book
The contributions in this volume map out how technologies are used and designed to plan, maintain, govern, demolish, and destroy the city. The chapters demonstrate how urban technologies shape, and are shaped, by fundamental concepts and principles such as citizenship, publicness, democracy, and nature. The many authors herein explore how to think of technologically mediated urban space as part of the human condition. The volume will thus contribute to the much-needed discussion on technology-enabled urban futures from the perspective of the philosophy of technology. This perspective also contributes to the discussion and process of making cities ‘smart’ and just. This collection appeals to students, researchers, and professionals within the fields of philosophy of technology, urban planning, and engineering.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr. Taylor Stone is cross-appointed as a Postdoctoral Researcher and Lecturer at the Philosophy Department of Delft University of Technology. His research focuses on how technologies and infrastructures shape, and are shaped by, social and environmental values. He takes this up through conceptual investigations into human-technology-environment relations, in combination with practical work on the responsible design of new and emerging technologies.
Margoth González Woge is a PhD candidate at the Philosophy Department of the University of Twente. She is a lecturer in Philosophy of Technology at the Technology and Liberal Arts & Sciences (ATLAS) honours programme at University College Twente, where she is also involved in curricula development. Her research focuses on human-technology interactions within high-tech environments, drawing from postphenomenology and ecological-enactive cognition.
Dr. Pieter Vermaas is Associate Professor at the Philosophy Department of Delft University of Technology. His research focusses on the epistemology of design and the analysis of claims about what design in engineering, product-development and architecture can achieve and bring to society. He is President of the Society for Philosophy and Technology (http://www.spt.org/),Executive Director of the Delft Design for Values institute (http://designforvalues.tudelft.nl/) and Editor in Chief of the Philosophy of Engineering and Technology book series (https://www.springer.com/series/8657).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Technology and the City
Book Subtitle: Towards a Philosophy of Urban Technologies
Editors: Michael Nagenborg, Taylor Stone, Margoth González Woge, Pieter E. Vermaas
Series Title: Philosophy of Engineering and Technology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52313-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-52312-1Published: 26 January 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-52315-2Published: 26 January 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-52313-8Published: 25 January 2021
Series ISSN: 1879-7202
Series E-ISSN: 1879-7210
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 450
Number of Illustrations: 16 b/w illustrations
Topics: Philosophy of Technology, Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), Civil Engineering, Cities, Countries, Regions