Phenomenology of the Winter-City

Chapter 1 Introduction: Intertwining Consciousness, Human Body and the Environment

Chapter 2 Human Posture and the Nightly Sky: Cosmos in Prehistoric Myth

Chapter 3 The North, Axis mundi and Gender Myths in the Rise of Civic Space

Chapter 4 Winter Acumen and Mood Disorder: Apollo, Dionysus and Foucault’s History of Madness

Chapter 5 Hero Under the Weather: Mood Disorder and the Emergence of Civic Space

Chapter 7 Sky Myths and Gender Projection in Early City-Form

Chapter 8 The North and Paradigms of Balance: Harmony and Equilibrium as an Urban Ideal

Chapter 9 Axial Age Civilizations as a Project of North-Hemispheric Masculinity: The Antipodean Myth

Chapter 10 Philosophical Urbanism from Thomas More to Walter Benjamin

Chapter 11 The LIA: Prelude and Aftermath, from the Garden to City Without Streets

Chapter 12 From Cartesian Doubt to Heroic Design: The Late LIA and the Myth of the Grand Designer

Chapter 13 The Late LIA and Its Urban Sequel: Reason, Mental Illness and the Emergence of Crowd

Chapter 14 Reflections on the LIA: Loss of Place and the North American Winter-City

Chapter 15 Epilogue