ABSTRACT
The concept of social creativity provides a useful starting point for thinking through the ethical projects and initiatives in cities discussed in the chapters: through such projects, individuals gathered in collectives within cities are able to create new social relationships and institutions. Tensions between metatheoretical positions also play into different conceptualizations of urban ethics and their potential scope. Urban ethics are negotiated across various scales of socio-spatial life in cities. Ethical concerns are matters of public rhetoric and discourse, and they are also experienced in highly personal ways as inner dilemmas – as matters of ‘ordinary ethics’. They are often presented as beneficial for all city dwellers in public rhetoric, be it from the side of governments or specific interest groups, but they also diverge among (and within) social milieux and according to different backgrounds, positionalities, subjectivities and agendas.
