Ebenezer Howard, an Englishman, and Jane Jacobs, a naturalized
Canadian, personify the twentieth century's opposing outlooks on
cities. Howard envisaged small towns, newly built from scratch and
comprised of single-family homes with small gardens, while Jacobs
embraced existing inner-city neighbourhoods that emphasized the
verve of the living street. Both figures have had their share of
supporters as well as detractors: Howard's conceptualization
received criticism for its uniformity and alienation from the city
core, while Jacobs's urban vision came to be recognized as the
result of invasive gentrification. Presenting Howard and Jacobs
within a psychocultural context, The Urban Archetypes of Jane
Jacobs and Ebenezer Howard addresses our urban crisis in its
recognition that "city form is a gendered, allegorical medium
expressing femininity and masculinity within two founding features
of the built environment: void and volume." These founding
contrasts represent both tension as well as the opportunity for
fusion between pairs of urban polarities: human scale against
superscale, gait against speed, and spontaneity against
surveillance. In their respective attitudes, Howard and Jacobs have
come to embrace the two ancient archetypes of the Garden and the
Citadel, leaving it to future generations to blend their two
contrarian stances.
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