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A City of Equals combines a multi-disciplinary literature review and, distinctively, more than 180 interviews in 10 cities in 6 countries: Wolff and de Shalit provide an account of a city of equals based on the idea that it should give each of its city-zens a secure sense of place or belonging.
List of contents
- 1: Introduction, Motivation, and Methods
- 2: A Critical Literature Review
- 3: Interview Themes and Results. Part 1
- 4: Interview Themes and Results. Part 2
- 5: A Secure Sense of Place
- 6: Conclusions and Next Steps
About the author
Jonathan Wolff is the Alfred Landecker Professor of Values and Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government Oxford and Governing Body Fellow at Wolfson College. He was formerly Professor of Philosophy and Dean of Arts and Humanities at UCL. He works on inequality, disadvantage, social justice, poverty, and challenges to democracy, as well as applied topics such as public safety, disability, gambling, and recreational drugs. He has worked with organisations such as the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, the WHO, and the Academy of Medical Science. For many years he wrote a regular column on higher education for The Guardian.
Avner de Shalit (D.Phil. Oxford 1990) is the Max Kampelman Professor of Democracy and Human Rights at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. He is the author of 9 books and dozens of papers in urban political theory, equality, and environmental philosophy. At the Hebrew University he was head of the Department of Political Science and Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences. For his research achievements he was awarded the Rothschild Prize in the Social Sciences (2014), and the EMET Prize in Political Science (2018). In Israel he has been active for peace with the Palestinians and for democracy.
Summary
A City of Equals combines a multi-disciplinary literature review and, distinctively, more than 180 interviews in 10 cities in 6 countries: Wolff and de Shalit provide an account of a city of equals based on the idea that it should give each of its city-zens a secure sense of place or belonging.
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This is a much-needed counterweight to the prevailing economistic and non-spatial debates about inequality. A valuable resource for urban scholars.
