Philosophical Urbanism: Lineages in Mind-Environment Patterns

by Abraham Akkerman

Book Overview

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 allegories of the masculine and the feminine. While these allegories had been largely in balance throughout the early history of the city, increasingly...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030290875
• ISBN13: 9783030290870
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 193 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.3"