The Urban Archetypes of Jane Jacobs and Ebenezer Howard : Contradiction and Meaning in City Form / Abraham Akkerman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Akkerman, Abraham, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City planning--Environmental aspects.

City planning.

Jacobs, Jane, 1916-2006.

Jacobs, Jane.

Howard, Ebenezer, Sir, 1850-1928.

Howard, Ebenezer.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (275 pages)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

"This monograph brings the urban planning approaches of Howard and Jacobs into a single urbanist context. It identifies pints of contrast as well as commonalities between the two approaches by setting them first onto a paradigmatic level of prime environmental archetypes that have shaped city form since archaic times. Through the examination of various urbanist and urban planning approaches throughout the 20th century both Howard and Jacobs are shown as steadfast albeit imperfect chaperones of the enviromental archetypes of the Farden and the Citadel for the idea city."-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

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?

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

1-4875-1282-1

1-4875-1281-3

OCLC:

1131819160