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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Akkerman, Abraham, 1948- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : University of Toronto Press, [2020]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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?