Spatial Contract - A New Politics of Provision for an Urbanized Planet

This book is about how a new form of social contract, which we call the spatial contract, can help revitalize the economies of the basic things that matter - the core systems which build and provision the settlements human beings call home.

List of contents

Introduction
1 Freedom, reliance and the spatial contract
2 Seeing like a system
3 Seeing like a settlement
4 Reliance and exploitation
Conclusion: Building a healthy spatial contract

About the author

Matthew Noah Smith is Associate Professor in philosophy in the Northeastern University Department of Philosophy and Religion

Alex Schafran is an urban planner and geographer, and the author of The Road to Resegregation: Northern California and the Failure of Politics

Stephen Hall is University Academic Fellow in the School of Earth and Environment at the University of Leeds

Summary

This book is about how a new form of social contract, which we call the spatial contract, can help revitalize the economies of the basic things that matter – the core systems which build and provision the settlements human beings call home. -- .

Product details

• Authors: Stephen Hall, Alex Schafran, Alex Smith Schafran, Matthew Noah Smith
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2020
• EAN: 9781526143365
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-4336-5
• No. of pages: 168
• Series: Manchester Capitalism
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, Urban & municipal planning, Political Economy, urban economics, Urban and municipal planning and policy, Regional / urban economics