Norms and the City
Date
2024
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AESOP
Abstract
Conformity is the tendency to modify one’s behaviour to match the behaviour of others. Lisciandra et al. (2013) introduced the concept of conformorality to refer to the susceptibility of moral judgements to conformity. While it is often suggested that conformorality is generally bad, recent interdisciplinary work indicates that conformorality can also promote epistemically and morally positive outcomes under certain conditions. In the literature, little attention has been paid to the geometry of urban spaces. Here we combine results from the philosophy and psychology of conformity with general insights from urban studies to distinguish three ways in which the geometry of urban spaces might relate to conformorality, namely: urban spaces can exemplify, afford, or constitute conformorality. This paper’s analysis contributes a more nuanced understanding of the different faces of conformorality, as well as their bearing on urban planning and city living.
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Conformity, Conformorality, Social norms, Urban spaces, Utopias, Affordances, Hostile architecture
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CC-BY
Citation
Colombo, M., & Lisciandra, C. (2024). Norms and the City. Transactions of the Association of European Schools of Planning, 8(1), 1–9. https://doi.org/10.24306/TrAESOP.2024.01.001