ABSTRACT
The built environment plays a central part in our daily lives, but rarely does it factor in to ethical debates, which is odd, since both architecture and ethics involve the relationships and duties among people in the physical world. Ethics has tended to view human behavior apart from its setting and has long ignored the spatial aspects of our responsibilities toward others, just as architecture has emphasized aesthetics and pragmatics over ethics. The famous Trolley Problem in ethics shows how a spatial approach to such dilemmas can reveal both-and rather than either-or solutions, something that architects continually confront in their practices.
