ISBN:
9781487512811
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (275 pages)
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Erscheint auch als
DDC:
307.1216
Keywords:
Jacobs, Jane,-1916-2006
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Originating in archaic parables of the Garden and the Citadel, gender allegories have been projected upon built environments throughout history.
Abstract:
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 René 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.
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