Introduction

This chapter provides a brief overview of the primary and secondary themes explored throughout the book, focusing on a wide range of issues from highly abstract ideas to concrete situations in cities. It describes each chapter succinctly by providing a base understanding of significant terms and concepts that reappear in several chapters. It describes the methodology employed in the text, which is an interdisciplinary approach to philosophical inquiry. This chapter also acknowledges the book’s inherent limitations, such as intersecting topics outside this book’s purview. This introduction includes chapter previews that primes readers for the complex ideas fleshed out throughout the text.