Ethics and Politics of the Built Environment: Gardens of the Anthropocene

Chapter One: Gardens and the Anthropocene.- What this book is.- What this book is not.- Aims and structure of the book.- State of the art.- The Anthropocene.- The planet and I.- Chapter Two: Gardens and Cities.- Cities.- Food.- City Gardens.- Ecological benefits of urban gardening.- Social benefits of urban gardening.- Concluding remarks.- Chapter Three: Gardens and Culture.- The nature/culture divide.- Human exceptionalism.- Anthropocentrism.- Concluding remarks.- Chapter Four: Gardens and Morals.- Individual moral obligations in the Anthropocene.- Self-offsetting.- Urban gardening and systemic reform.- Why gardening.- Concluding remarks.- Chapter Five: Gardens and Ethics.- Virtue.- Environmental virtue.- Virtue in the Anthropocene.- Virtues for the Anthropocene.- Concluding Remarks.- Chapter Six: Gardens and Politics.- Governance Challenges.- Legitimacy challenges.- The Anthropocene and the public/private distinction.- Environmental pragmatism, agrarianism, and civic republicanism.- Gardens, public goods, and operative democracy.- Concluding remarks.- Conclusion.