Urban Archetypes of Jane Jacobs and Ebenezer Howard - Contradiction and Meaning in City Form

Originating in archaic parables of the Garden and the Citadel, gender allegories have been projected upon built environments throughout history.

List of contents

List of Figures
Preface
Introduction: Modernity and Its Urban Context
1. Paradigms of City Form in the Urbanism of Ebenezer Howard and Jane Jacobs
2. Howard vs. Jacobs: Ideal City or Authentic Street?
3. Twentieth-Century Transformations of the Garden and the City
4. The Neighbourhood as a State of Wonderment: The Urbanist Dream of Jane Jacobs
5. Spectacle and Contempt in City Form: Howard and Jacobs
6. The Ghost of Howard: Advent of the Masterplan and the Loss of Place
7. "Growth Ain’t Expansion": Jacobs in Toronto
8. Urban Space: Medium or Message?
Bibliography
Index

About the author

By Abraham Akkerman

Summary

Originating in archaic parables of the Garden and the Citadel, gender allegories have been projected upon built environments throughout history.

Product details

• Authors: Abraham, Abraham Akkerman
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.02.2020
• EAN: 9781487501266
• ISBN: 978-1-4875-0126-6
• No. of pages: 277
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte, Philosophie: Sachbuch, Ratgeber, Industrialisierung und Industriegeschichte, Mündlich überlieferte Geschichte, Oral History