Phenomenology of the Winter-City Myth in the Rise and Decline of Bui
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
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Phenomenology of the Winter-City Myth in the Rise and Decline of Built Environments
Phenomenology of the Winter-City
Abraham Akkerman
Phenomenology of the Winter-City Myth in the Rise and Decline of Built Environments
Abraham Akkerman Department of Geography and Planning University of Saskatchewan Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
ISBN 978-3-319-26699-2 ISBN 978-3-319-26701-2 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-26701-2
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Preface
This monograph is an attempt to see the history of city form and the history of ideas within a single context of mutual and ongoing interaction. Recognizing the primordial sources of this feedback progression as originating in human development and the environment, not the least climate and sky patterns since the Upper Paleolithic era, myth becomes a focal concern in this study, as it should be. This, I believe, leads to some profound questions on the phenomenology of the city and on the notion of place in the winter city of North America, in particular. The seeds of these questions have been sown by the philosopher Herbert Spencer, by the geographer Carl Sauer, and by the cultural critic Walter Benjamin, a century ago. But ideas on mind-environment interaction can certainly be traced to the eighteenth century’s physical geography of Immanuel Kant. A wide scope of issues, ranging from geography to psychoanalysis, were addressed in this study as aspects necessary, as well as illuminating, to the history and phenomenology of the built environment. The humanistic focus this study attempts to bring to considerations of city form yields recognition of the major role myth and a
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