Ethics, Design and Planning of the Built Environment

Part I. Rising Problems

1. Values in Planning and Design: A Process Perspective on Ethics in Forming the Built Environment
Ernest R. Alexander

2. A Conversation About Who’s In? Who’s Out? And Who Answers Those Questions When Planning for and Designing the Downtown
Carol D. Barrett

3. The Relevance of Public Space: Rethinking Its Material and Political Aspects
Stefano Moroni, Francesco Chiodelli

4. Architects on Value: Reducing Ethics to Aesthetics?
Stefan Koller

Part II. Evolving Paradigms

5. Architecture as an Object of Research: Incorporating Ethical Questions in Design Thinking
Lara Schrijver

6. Aesthetics as a Risk Factor in Designing Architecture
Sabine Roeser

7. Cost-Benefit Analysis and Evaluating Transport Safety Effects: A Discussion from the Perspective of Ethics
Bert Wee, Piet Rietveld

8. Urban In/Justice
Emily Talen

Part III. Emerging Perspectives

9. Architecture and Value-Sensitive Design
Jeroen Hoven

10. Designing for Meaning: The Designer’s Ethical Responsibility
Stanley M. Stein, Thomas L. Harper

11. Risk, Space, and Distributive Justice
Claudia Basta

12. City Planning and Animals: Expanding Our Urban Compassion Footprint
Timothy Beatley, Marc Bekoff

Keywords: Earth Sciences, Earth Sciences, general, Cities, Countries, Regions, Ethics, Aesthetics