Humanists versus Engineers in Urban Policy and Professional Education
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The book critiques the current approach to infrastructure development, highlighting that excessive building has failed to meet transportation needs while causing significant environmental harm. It advocates for a 'mobility revolution' that reframes the conversation around transportation as a political issue, urging a fundamental change in how society addresses mobility challenges.
A change in the way humans relate to nature could be the starting point for a new politics, which will also affect relations among humans. A new approach would help to radically transform the production system, not because it is unjust in the usually considered social terms, but because it endangers nature and humanity. So far, the citizens’ grassroots organizations have failed to win broad consensus and political power in the representative institutions. When the time comes to transform the single environmental issue into an electoral platform, environmentalists lose unity and effectiveness since they lack a common political vision and an ensuing strategy. On the other hand European politics is rapidly transforming because the challenge brought by so-called populist movements. We need to transform activists’ shared emotions and attitudes into political ideologies and platforms. Moreover, a new educational process and a new science politics are necessary to reform environmental policy.