The article discusses current debates on the caring city and approaches the concepts of care from three perspectives in order to highlight connections for urban sociological research: (1) The ethics of care enables a relational concept of society with a view to practices of solidarity; (2) care work refers to gendered roles in the social reproduction of the city; and (3) the focus on care relationships highlights different qualities in urban coexistence and cohabitation from a body sociological perspective. Contextualised in various, mutually interdependent crises of urbanisation, this combined approach presents a partially open, systematic care research approach in urban sociology.