Wildness, Justice, and Aesthetics: Imaginaries of Future Urban Natures (Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy)

Urbanization is expanding at rapid rates worldwide.This growth depletes resources, destroys habitats, and negatively affects mental health by distancing people from nature.On the other hand, per-capita resource and space consumption decreases significantly in cities compared to suburban and rural forms of life.By concentrating people into dense settlements, cities render resource usage more efficiently and they free up spaces for other species and natural processes.Yet these apparent ecological benefits risk coming at the cost of human alienation from the rest of the natural world.This tension raises a fundamental philosophical question: Must the city stand in opposition to nature? Or can it be reimagined as a shared habitat in which human and other forms of life co-inhabit and co-produce the world?How can it become a city for all, including other species?The book surveys emerging ways of conceptualizing the relationship between the urban, the natural, and the wild.It explores differen