FOR 2101: Urban Ethics: Conflicts about the good and proper conduct of life in 20th and 21st century cities

“城市伦理”研究小组在城市研究中开创了一种新方法。在资助项目的头两年，通过六个子项目和两个相关子项目，研究小组一直在研究城市中的伦理冲突和辩论，以及人们应该如何在城市中生活的讨论和争议——从什么构成良好和正确的城市生活的问题的意义上说。通过这种方式，小组将城市伦理现象作为一种文化主题，并与相关概念建立了一种新的分析方法。在第一阶段，我们探讨了以下问题：城市在多大程度上可以被理解为伦理协商和争论的空间；在转型过程的背景下，具体城市伦理项目的形成和功能是什么；哪些伦理模式可以化解城市伦理冲突；在什么条件下它们特别强大；以及它们与哪些其他意图和利益相关联。我们的分析兴趣是特定伦理项目和问题群的政治（在公认的意义上）机会和障碍。为此，为了促进跨学科研究的协调与合作，我们制定了一个共同的主要问题（一个人应该如何在城市中生活？）、四个视角（治理技术、社会创造力、道德经济和伦理主题）和三组问题。虽然结果当然是与主题相关和依赖的，但在批判文化和社会科学理论和理论建设的意义上，它们也是方法论和理论导向的。为了“深化”（在系统地使我们的概念精确的意义上）城市伦理研究方法，我们计划在进一步实现我们现有的视角和研究问题的价值的同时，开辟新的主题和方面。一个新的视角，即对正义理想的伦理和政治讨论之间关系的调查，将比第一阶段发挥更突出的作用。在第二阶段，我们将发展和巩固(1)城市伦理研究的方法创新。(2)旨在扩大城市伦理学的中心领域和研究问题，我们认为这些领域和研究问题与我们在共同观点和研究问题上的集体工作特别相关。

The research group “Urban Ethics” pioneers a new approach in Urban Studies. In the first two years of the funded project, through six subprojects and two associated subprojects, the research group has been researching ethical conflicts and debates in cities and discussions and disputes over how one should live in the city – in the sense of the issue of what constitutes good and right urban living. In this way the group opens up urban ethical phenomenon as cultural subject matter and established a new analytical approach with related concepts.In the first phase we pursued the questions how far cities can be understood as spaces for ethical negotiation and contestation, which forms and functions concrete urban ethical projects take in the context of transformation processes, which ethical modes defuse urban ethical conflicts, under what conditions are they especially powerful, and with what other intensions and interests are they associated. Our analytical interest was in political (in the accepted sense) opportunities for and barriers to particular ethical projects and problem constellations.To these ends, and to promote coordination and collaboration in our interdisciplinary research, we formulated a common main question (How should one live in the city?), four perspectives (techniques of governance, social creativity, moral economy, and ethical subjects), and three sets of questions. While the results are of course subject related and dependent, they are also, in the sense of critical cultural and social science theory and theory building, methodologically and theoretically oriented. In order to “deepen” (in the sense of systematically making our concepts precise) the Urban Ethic research approach, we plan to both further realize the value of our existing perspectives and research questions, and open up new subjects and aspects. A new perspective, the investigation of the relations between ethical and political discussions of justice ideals, will play a more prominent role than in the first phase. In the second phase we will develop and consolidate (1) methodological innovation in Urban Ethical research. This will be complemented by (2) aiming to broaden the central fields and research issues of Urban Ethics that we think are especially relevant to our collective work on common perspectives and research questions.