Description / Table of Contents:
Intro -- Foreword: Why Public Urban Agriculture? -- Literature -- Preface -- Contents -- Editors and Contributors -- About the Editors -- Contributors -- Chapter 1: Setting the Stage: Urban Agriculture, Public Space, and Human Well-Being -- 1.1 The Multidimensional Benefits of Urban Agriculture to Public Life and Well-being in Cities -- 1.2 The Structure and Content of This Book -- References -- Part I: Conceptual Foundations: Urban Agriculture for Human Flourishing -- Chapter 2: Capabilities and Beyond: Towards an Operationalization of Eudaimonic Well-Being in a Public Space Context -- 2.1 Introduction: Addressing Well-Being in Cities -- 2.2 The Distinction Between Eudaimonic and Hedonic Well-Being -- 2.3 Well-Being as an Ethical Construct -- 2.4 Eudaimonic Well-Being and Capabilities -- 2.5 Addressing Public Space: Environmental and Social Affordances -- 2.6 Toward an Operationalization of Eudaimonic Well-Being in the Urban Agriculture Context -- 2.7 Beyond Capabilities -- 2.8 Concluding Remarks -- References -- Chapter 3: Cultivating Virtue: Neo-Aristotelian Concepts in Public Space Development -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 The Well-Being of Citizens in an Aristotelian Perspective -- 3.2.1 Eudaimonia and the Virtues -- 3.2.2 Ethics and Politics -- 3.2.3 Civic Friendship -- 3.3 Alasdair MacIntyre on Productive Practices and Communities of Virtue -- 3.3.1 The Contemporary Reassertion of Aristotelian Concepts -- 3.3.2 Communities of Virtue and the Local Scale of Urban Politics -- 3.3.3 Practices and Institutions -- 3.4 Facilitating Practices and Virtue Communities in Contemporary Cities -- 3.4.1 Three Concerns for Public Space Development -- 3.4.2 The Example of Urban Agriculture -- 3.5 Concluding Remarks -- References -- Part II: Public Urban Agriculture in Northern European Contexts.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (328 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9783031415500
Series Statement:
GeoJournal Library v.132
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=31323909
Language:
English
Note:
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources
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