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The urban archetypes of Jane Jacobs and Ebenezer Howard : contradiction and meaning in city form /
"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 f...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto ; Buffalo ; London :
University of Toronto Press,
[2020]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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?