Philosophical Urbanism Lineages in Mind-Environment Patterns
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 env
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Abraham Akkerman
Philosophical Urbanism
Abraham Akkerman
Philosophical Urbanism Lineages in Mind-Environment Patterns
Abraham Akkerman Department of Geography and Planning University of Saskatchewan Saskatoon, SK, Canada Department of Philosophy University of Saskatchewan Saskatoon, SK, Canada
ISBN 978-3-030-29084-9 ISBN 978-3-030-29085-6 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29085-6 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG. The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland
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Contents
1 Philosophical Urbanism of Walter Benjamin 1 1.1 Modernity: Walter Benjamin on Mind and the Urban Environment 3 1.2 The Environ/mental Context of Benjamin’s Arcades Project: Echoes of the Little Ice Age 9 1.3 Urbanization of the Late LIA and Its Cerebral Impact: Crowd as the Form of Space 15 1.4 Myths of the Garden and the Citadel in the Emergence of Conceptual Dispositions 24 1.5 Jung’s Castle in the Forest: Gender in Human Niche Construction 28 Bibliography 37 2 Sky and Gender Myths in the Founding of Early Built Environments 43 2.1 Early Anthropomorphic Projections Upon Geographic Space 45 2.2 North Stars of the Equinoctial Cycle: From Eurasian Migrations to the Venus Figurines 49 2.3 Axis Mundi as Architectural Archetype 55 2.4 Ouroboros and the Rise of Public Place 60 2.5 Eternal Return and Axis Mundi as Gendered Myths 64 Bibliography 67
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3 Aristotelian Streetscapes in the Rise of Modernity 71 3.1 From Urban Prehistory to the Medieval City: Aristotelean Streetscapes as a Paradigm 73 3.2 The City as a Psychical Entity: Freud’s Urbanist Sta
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