Main entry:

Akkerman, Abraham, 1948- author.

Title & Author:

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

Publication:

Toronto ; Buffalo : London : University of Toronto Press, [2020]
©2020

Description:

xii, 262 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-250) and index.
1 Paradigms of City Form in the Urbanism of Ebenezer Howard and Jane Jacobs p. 22 -- 2 Howard vs Jacobs; Ideal City or Authentic Street? p. 50 -- 3 Twentieth-Century Transformations, of the Garden and the City p. 75 -- 4 The Neighbourhood as a State of Wonderment: The Urbanist Dream of Jane Jacobs p. 96 -- 5 Spectacle and Contempt in City Form: Howard and Jacobs p. 120 -- 6 The Ghost of Howard: Advent of the Masterplan and the Loss of Place p. 151 -- 7 "Growth Ain't Expansion": Jacobs in Toronto p. 180 -- 8 Urban Space: Medium or Message? p. 204.

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 environmental archetypes of the Farden and the Citadel for the idea city."-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9781487501266 hardcover
1487501269 hardcover

Subject:

Jacobs, Jane, 1916-2006.
Howard, Ebenezer, Sir, 1850-1928.
Howard, Ebenezer, 1850-1928.
City planning Environmental aspects.
Urbanisme Aspect de l'environnement.
Urbanisme durable.

Added entries:

Contradiction and meaning in city form

Holdings:

Location: Library main 308004
Call No.: BIB 253457
Status: Available