This book delves into the ethical dimension of urban life: how should one live in the city? What constitutes a 'good' life under urban condition? Whose gets to live a 'good' life, and whose ideas of morality, propriety and 'good' prevail? What is the connection between the 'good' and the 'just' in urban life?

Part 1: Configurations of Ethics and the Urban - Concepts and Theories 1. Introduction: Urban Ethics - Conflicts over the Good and Proper Life in Cities 2. The Habitat of the Subject: Exploring New Forms of the Ethical Imagination 3. The City as a Setting for Collaboration? Tracking the Multiple Scales of Urban Promises Part 2: Shifting Ethics of the Urban: Historical Case Studies 4. Mégapoles, Polyrhythmy, Porosity: Tracing Ideas of Mediterranean Urbanity in Western ScholarlyDdiscourse 5. Urbanity as an Ethic: Reflections on the Cities of the Arab World 6. The Fractious Stability of an Immoral Landscape: The Land Walls of Istanbul, 1910 to 1980 7. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Bucharest's Urban Core as a Moral Playground 8. 1968 and Beyond. The Urban Struggle on Trial? Part 3: Building and Living Ethically - Conflicts over Housing and Architecture 9. Shaping Urban Ethics. The 'Making-of' a Collective Housing Project at Berlin's River Spree 10. Commitment ¿ City ¿ Self. Ethical Self-formations in Munich's Young Housing Cooperatives 11. Antagonisms and Solidarities in Housing Movements in Bucharest and Budapest 12. Ethical Contestation in Architecture for a Creative Singapore Part 4: Environmental Justice, Ethics of Care and the Spectacle of Urban Sustainability 13. Reimagining Urban Environmentalisms: A Comparative Framework 14. Handling Waste through Consensus, Care and Community in Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand Part 5: Protest between Ethics and Politics: Collective Agents of Urban Change 15. Keep the City Clean. The Ambivalent Ethics of Ownership in Urban Routine and Non-Violent Protest in Moscow 16. Guardians of Torfjanka Park: The Fight for "Our Moscow" and the Understanding of "Ordinary People" in the Current Conjuncture 17. "They are stealing the state": Commoning and the Gilets Jaunes in France