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The urban archetypes of Jane Jacobs and Ebenezer Howard : contradiction and meaning in city form /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Akkerman, Abraham, 1948- (Author)
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2020]
Subjects:
Jacobs, Jane, > 1916-2006.
Howard, Ebenezer, > Sir, > 1850-1928.
City planning > Environmental aspects.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Half Title Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Figures
  • Preface
  • Introduction Modernity and Its Urban Context
  • 1. Paradigms of City Form in the Urbanism of Ebenezer Howard and Jane Jacobs
  • Howard and Jacobs: Main Tenets Juxtaposed
  • First Public Parks and Early Urban Garden Communities
  • Emergence of the City Beautiful and the Garden City Movements
  • The Brave New Worlds of Howard and Jacobs: The Urban Environment as a Mirror of Mind
  • The Rationalism of RenĂ© Descartes and the Empiricism of John Locke: The Urbanist Context
  • From the History to the Epistemology of the Urban Environment
  • The Epistemology of Urban Modernity and Post-Modernity
  • 2. Howard vs Jacobs: Ideal City or Authentic Street?
  • Ebenezer Howard's Garden City as a Neoplatonic Myth
  • Representations of the City and the Street
  • The Ideal City and Consciousness: The Circle and the Square
  • Evolution of the Ideal City in Images of the Soul, the Human Body, and the Universe
  • Historical Perspectives on Urban Depictions by Howard and Jacobs
  • The Urbanist Legacies of Howard and Jacobs
  • 3. Twentieth-Century Transformations of the Garden and the City
  • A Vertical Garden City?
  • Nature in the City: Urban Greening in the Age of Automation
  • The Garden City as a Prelude to Twentieth-Century City Form
  • Marxist Transformations of the Garden City
  • Kitchen Design and Urban Planning
  • Towards the Malfunctioning Metropolis: The Masterplan as a Cartesian Myth
  • 4. The Neighbourhood as a State of Wonderment: The Urbanist Dream of Jane Jacobs
  • The Myth of the Grand Designer
  • Metropolis and Alienation
  • The Great Depression and the American Garden Suburb
  • Jane Jacobs vs Lewis Mumford: Authenticity and Alienation in City Form
  • Confronting the Grand Designer: Jane Jacobs vs Robert Moses
  • The Inner City and the Other Jane
  • 5. Spectacle and Contempt in City Form: Howard and Jacobs
  • History of Suburbia and the Subordination of Urban Space
  • The Masterplan and Its Sources: Myth and Reason in Baroque Plans for London
  • Anticipating Howard and Jacobs: From Wren's Streetscapes to L'Enfant's Plan
  • Descartes's Clear and Distinct Ideas: Spectacle and Control in Cartesian City Form
  • Sight and Order: From Masterplan and Spectacle to Crowd-Control and Contempt
  • Cartesian Streetscapes, East and West: From Nevsky Prospekt to the National Mall
  • 6. The Ghost of Howard: Advent of the Masterplan and the Loss of Place
  • Modernity's Built Environment: Myth, Reason, and the Unplanned
  • The Masterplan and Its Victims: Collective Unconscious and Collective Memory
  • The Halo of Modernity's Hero: Mechanistic Myth and the Eclipse of Humanness
  • Archetype of the Ideal City and Its Origins
  • The Hidden Sources of Howard's Diagrams
  • 7. "Growth Ain't Expansion": Jacobs in Toronto