{"product_id":"the-urban-archetypes-of-jane-abraham-akkerman-9781487521288","title":"The Urban Archetypes of Jane Jacobs and Ebenezer Howard: Contradiction and Meaning in City Form","description":"\u003cp\u003eEbenezer Howard, an Englishman, and Jane Jacobs, a naturalized Canadian, personify the twentieth century's opposing outlooks on cities. Howard had envisaged small towns, newly built from scratch, fashioned on single family homes with small gardens. Jacobs embraced existing inner-city neighbourhoods emphasizing the verve of the living street. From Howard's idea, the American Dream of garden suburbs had emerged, yet his conceptualization of a modern city received criticism for being uniform and alienated from the rest of the city. Similarly, at the turn of the new century, Jacobs' inner-city neighbourhoods came to be recognized as the result of commodification, vacillating between poverty and newly discovered hubs of urban authenticity.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePresenting Howard and Jacobs within a psychocultural context, \u003ci\u003eThe Urban Archetypes of Jane Jacobs and Ebenezer Howard\u003c\/i\u003e addresses our urban crisis in the recognition that \"city form\" is a gendered, allegorical medium expressing femininity and masculinity within two founding features of the built environment: void and volume. Both founding contrasts bring tensions, but also the opportunities of fusion between pairs of urban polarities: human scale against superscale, gait against speed, and spontaneity against surveillance. Jacobs and Howard, in their respective attitudes, have come to embrace the two ancient archetypes, \u003ci\u003ethe Garden\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ethe Citadel\u003c\/i\u003e, leaving it to future generations to blend their two contrarian stances.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Abraham Akkerman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1487521286\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781487521288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/01\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d","brand":"Abraham Akkerman","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48453693440255,"sku":"9781487521288","price":32.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_62ee5071-7975-49e3-a243-d1d88092c08a.jpg?v=1777301707","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-urban-archetypes-of-jane-abraham-akkerman-9781487521288","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}