At the start of the twentieth century, the modern metropolis was a riot of sensation. City dwellers lived in an environment filled with smoky factories, crowded homes, and lively thoroughfares. Sights, sounds, and smells flooded their senses, while changing conceptions of health and decorum forced many to rethink their most banal gestures, from the way they negotiated speeding traffic to the use they made of public washrooms.The Feel of the City exposes the sensory experiences of city-dwellers in Montreal and Brussels at the turn of the century and the ways in which these shaped the social and cultural significance of urban space. Using the experiences of municipal officials, urban planners, hygienists, workers, writers, artists, and ordinary citizens, Nicolas Kenny explores the implications of the senses for our understanding of modernity.
Nicolas Kenny
Feel of the City [PDF ebook]
Experiences of Urban Transformation
Feel of the City [PDF ebook]
Experiences of Urban Transformation
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Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 320 ● ISBN 9781442669055 ● Publisher University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division ● Published 2014 ● Downloadable 3 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 6569774 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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