The City: An Urban Cosmology

This book develops a theory of good urban growth involving both the physical & cultural dimensions of city life.

Joseph Grange is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern Maine. He is the author of Nature: An Environmental Cosmology, also published by SUNY Press.

Preface

xi

Introduction: Cosmology and Urban Culture

xv

Process and Urban Values

xv

The Categoreal Scheme

xix

Urban Semiotics

xxv

Normative Consciousness

xxxii

Plan of This Study

xxxiv

Abbreviations

xxxvii

PART ONE CITYSCAPE

Urban Space

3

(18)

The Inscape of Urban Space

3

(2)

The Patterns of Urban Space

5

(2)

The Symbolic Perception of Urban Space

7

(5)

The Felt Transmission of Urban Spatial Values

12

(9)

Urban Time

21

(20)

The Inscape of City Time

21

(3)

The Patterns of City Time

24

(6)

The Symbolic Perception of Urban Time

30

(2)

The Value of City Time

32

(9)

Urban Place

41

(22)

The Doctrine of Normative Measure

41

(8)

Space and Time All-at-Once

49

(4)

A Beautiful Place Is Always One and True

53

(6)

A Still Place

59

(4)

Urban Goodness

63

(18)

Kevin Lynch and Normative Measure

63

(2)

Three Normative Measures

65

(3)

Alexander's New Theory of Urban Design

68

(2)

The Goodness of the City

70

(11)

PART TWO URBAN SEMIOTICS

Mood, Order, and Sign

81

(18)

Survival

81

(4)

Habit

85

(3)

Growth

88

(4)

Felt Intelligence

92

(7)

The Sign of One/Qualitative Value

99

(22)

The Importance of One

100

(3)

The Iconography of the City

103

(4)

The Street

107

(8)

Original Feelings of Freshness

115

(6)

The Sign of Two/Collision

121

(16)

Secondness

122

(2)

The Urban Index

124

(3)

Empire Skyline

127

(3)

The Collisions of the Actual

130

(7)

The Sign of Three/Continuity

137

(22)

Involvement

137

(3)

The Urban Symbol

140

(3)

The Neighborhood

143

(6)

Inclusion

149

(10)

PART THREE URBAN PRAXIS

Intelligence-in-Action

159

(16)

Symbolism

159

(2)

Communication

161

(3)

Meaning

164

(3)

Intelligence-in-Action

167

(8)

Community

175

(18)

Something in between

176

(3)

Making Connections

179

(3)

Sharing Symbols

182

(4)

Community Is Democracy

186

(7)

City Justice

193

(16)

Market Place or City Place?

194

(4)

The Theology of the Invisible Hand

198

(2)

Self-Rule

200

(3)

City Justice Is Democratic Community

203

(6)

The Philosopher and the City

209

(28)

A Fair and Fitting City

210

(5)

One Thought/Many Feelings/three Signs

215

(9)

The Philosopher as Master of Heartfelt Contrast

224

(6)

American Philosophy at Work

230

(7)

Notes

237

(16)

Bibliography

253

(8)

Index

261

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