Philosophical Urbanism Lineages in Mind-Environment Patterns /

• Main Author: Akkerman, Abraham (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Phenomenology .; Environmental sciences-Philosophy.; Urban geography.; Sociology, Urban.; Phenomenology.; Environmental Philosophy.; Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns).; Urban Studies/Sociology.

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...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Philosophical Urbanism of Walter Benjamin
• 2.Sky and Gender Myths in the Founding of Early Built Environments
• 3. Aristotelian Streetscapes in the Rise of Modernity
• 4. From Body Without Organs to City Without Streets
• 5. LIA and the Iron Age Cold Epoch: Similitudes and Sequels.