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Urban Desertification.2014.Pdf, Jules Simon
Urban Desertification.2014.Pdf, Jules Simon
Jules Simon
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My thesis is that current cities and the way that cities are being
developed is unsustainable and poses global problems for the long-term
flourishing of the world’s inter-related and interdependent economies, for
matters of justice and happiness in socio-cultural relations between peoples,
and for the health of our natural environments. I argue that ‘urban
desertification’ happens in the complex relationship between cities (both urban
and suburban) and rural environments that support them as both a natural and
ethical phenomenon that I study using a form of analysis called
phenomenological ethics. First, …