The image of a planned town, as a paradigm of methodical reasoning, appears to be a cornerstone in the intellectual lineage of Rene Descartes, the founding father of modern philosophy. There are other examples in the history of philosophy and in the history of the city, where urban form and philosophical thought appear to interact through the medium of the mind. The present work attempts to review the impact philosophical doctrines had upon European urban forms throughout history, while critically reviewing also the urban heritage to which European philosophy is indebted. To the extent that a juxtaposition between the built environment and a contemporaneous philosphical thought can be reconstructed, this book alludes to a foundational process in philosophical as well as urban conceptualization.
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Abraham Akkerman is a professor in the Department of geography, and Chair of the Regional and Urban Development Program at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada. A Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (London) and a member of the Canadian Institute of Planners, he has written on a variety of topics pertaining to the urban environment. List of Akkerman's publications over the last four years: 1999 (under review), "Harmonies of urban design and discords of city form," Journal of Urban Design; 1998 (with Jia Sheng He), "Geographical patterns of fertility decline in Guangdong, 1982-1990," The Canadian Geographer 42: 174-192; 1996, "A problem in household composition," Mathematical Population Studies 6(1): 3-18; 1995, "Diurnal population cycle and metropolitan commuter exchange," Canadian Journal of Urban Research 4(2): 249-270; 1995, "The urban household pattern of daytime population change," The Annals of regional Science 29(1): 1-16.
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