Care and the City

This insightful book explores how caring and uncaring practices shape urban life, highlighting inequalities and offering critical analyses of urbanization processes.

The book Care and the City presents a cross-disciplinary collection of chapters that delve into urban social spaces, exploring how both caring and uncaring practices influence the daily lives of individuals. It poses critical questions about the integration of care and uncare within the urban environment, focusing particularly on the inequalities inherent in these relationships. The authors examine how these dynamics are acknowledged, perpetuated, and challenged across various contexts, discourses, and practices.

In Care and the City, urban scholars are encouraged to engage with new methodologies that conceptualize care within urban settings. The book offers a critical-reflexive analysis of urbanization processes, aiming to merge empirical, methodological, theoretical, and ethical considerations in urban studies. It seeks to move beyond a crisis-centered perspective on care, addressing the complexities and contradictions that arise in discussions around care practices and spaces. The authors provide a conceptual framework that situates these ideas within broader theoretical conversations about urban development and transformation.

Through detailed case studies from Europe, the Americas, and Asia, Care and the City establishes connections across various fields of knowledge. This integration aims to introduce care debates into urban studies, planning theory, and related disciplines, marking a significant contribution to the understanding of how care functions in urban environments. The book is a vital resource for those interested in the intersections of care, urbanization, and social equity.