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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."--

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

1. Introduction: Intertwining consciousness, human body and the environment -- Part I. Winter and the North in the emergence of civic space -- 2. Human posture and the nightly sky: Cosmos in Diluvial prehistoric myth -- 3. The North, Axis mundi and gender myths: The primordial civic space -- 4. Winter acumen and mood disorder: Apollo, Dionysus and Foucault's History of Madness -- 5. Hero under the weather: Mood disorder and the emergence of civic space -- 6. Psychocultural aspects of weather and place: The Little Ice Age -- Part II. Body-earth-sky and city-form -- 7. Sky myths and gender projection in early city-form -- 8. The North and paradigms of balance: Harmony and equilibrium as an urban ideal -- 9. Axial Age civilizations as a project of north-hemispheric masculinity: The Antipodean myth -- 10. Philosophical urbanism from Thomas More to Walter Benjamin -- Part III. Phenomenology of the winter-city -- 12. From Cartesian doubt to heroic design: The late LIA and the Myth of the Grand Designer -- 13. The late LIA and its urban sequel: Reason, mental illness and the emergence of crowd -- Part IV. Solvitur ambulando -- 14. Aftermaths of the LIA: Loss of place and the North American winter-city -- 15. Epilogue.