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This book explores how the weather and city-form impact the mind, and how city-form and mind interact. It builds on Merleau-Ponty’s contention that mind, the human body and the environment are intertwined in a singular composite, and on Walter Benjamin’s suggestion that mind and city-form, in mutual interaction, through history, have set the course of civilization. Bringing together the fields of philosophy, urbanism, geography, history, and architecture, the book shows the association of existentialism with prevalence of mood disorder in Northern Europe at the close of Little Ice Age. It explains the implications of city-form and traces the role of the myths and allegories of urban design as well as the history of gender projection onto city-form. It shows how urbanization in Northern Europe provided easier access to shelter, yet resulted in sunlight deprivation, and yielded increasing incidence of depression and other mental disorder among the European middle-class. The book uses the examples of Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky and Kafka, to show how walking through the streets, squares and other urban voids became the informal remedy to mood disorder, a prominent trait among founders of modern Existentialism. It concludes by describing how the connection of anguish and violence is relevant to winter depression in cities, in North America in particular.
Philosophy. --- Philosophy and social sciences. --- Phenomenology. --- Urban planning. --- City planning. --- Urbanism. --- Philosophy of the Social Sciences. --- Philosophy, Modern --- Phenomenology . --- Architecture. --- Social sciences --- Social philosophy --- Social theory --- Architecture, Western (Western countries) --- Building design --- Buildings --- Construction --- Western architecture (Western countries) --- Art --- Building --- Design and construction --- Social sciences and philosophy --- Cities and towns --- City planning --- Civic planning --- Land use, Urban --- Model cities --- Redevelopment, Urban --- Slum clearance --- Town planning --- Urban design --- Urban development --- Urban planning --- Land use --- Planning --- Art, Municipal --- Civic improvement --- Regional planning --- Urban policy --- Urban renewal --- Government policy --- Management
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This book expands on the thought of Walter Benjamin by exploring the notion of modern mind, pointing to the mutual and ongoing feedback between mind and city-form. Since the Neolithic Age, volumes and voids have been the founding constituents of built environments as projections of gender—as spatial allegories of the masculine and the feminine. While these allegories had been largely in balance throughout the early history of the city, increasingly during modernity, volume has overcome void in city-form. This volume investigates the pattern of Benjamin's thinking and extends it to the larger psycho-cultural and urban contexts of various time periods, pointing to environ/mental progression in the unfolding of modernity.
Cities and towns --- City planning --- Philosophy of nature. --- Nature --- Nature, Philosophy of --- Natural theology --- Philosophy. --- Philosophy --- Phenomenology . --- Environmental sciences—Philosophy. --- Urban geography. --- Sociology, Urban. --- Phenomenology. --- Environmental Philosophy. --- Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns). --- Urban Studies/Sociology. --- Urban sociology --- Geography --- Philosophy, Modern
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Cities and towns --- Urban planning --- Howard, Ebenezer, --- Jacobs, Jane, --- Criticism and interpretation.
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This book explores how the weather and city-form impact the mind, and how city-form and mind interact. It builds on Merleau-Ponty’s contention that mind, the human body and the environment are intertwined in a singular composite, and on Walter Benjamin’s suggestion that mind and city-form, in mutual interaction, through history, have set the course of civilization. Bringing together the fields of philosophy, urbanism, geography, history, and architecture, the book shows the association of existentialism with prevalence of mood disorder in Northern Europe at the close of Little Ice Age. It explains the implications of city-form and traces the role of the myths and allegories of urban design as well as the history of gender projection onto city-form. It shows how urbanization in Northern Europe provided easier access to shelter, yet resulted in sunlight deprivation, and yielded increasing incidence of depression and other mental disorder among the European middle-class. The book uses the examples of Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky and Kafka, to show how walking through the streets, squares and other urban voids became the informal remedy to mood disorder, a prominent trait among founders of modern Existentialism. It concludes by describing how the connection of anguish and violence is relevant to winter depression in cities, in North America in particular.
Philosophy --- Social sciences (general) --- Sociology --- Environmental planning --- Economic geography --- composieten --- psychosociale wetenschappen --- ruimtelijke ordening --- sociologie --- filosofie --- sociale filosofie --- steden --- existentialisme
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"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."--
City planning --- Environmental aspects. --- Jacobs, Jane, --- Howard, Ebenezer, --- Carl Jung. --- Ebenezer Howard. --- Garden City. --- ane Jacobs. --- femininity and masculinity. --- inner-city. --- myth . --- philosophy of the city. --- urban history. --- urban planning. --- void and volume.
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Philosophy --- Environmental planning --- urban planning --- architectuurfilosofie
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