The City of the Senses [electronic resource] : Urban Culture and Urban Space /
DeFazio, K.author.
Offers an innovative, interdisciplinary approach which opens up new ways of understanding urban culture and space. The author approaches the city as essentially a 'material' place where people live, work, and participate in social practices within historical limits set not by sensory experience or cultural meanings but material social conditions.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-186) and index.
Introduction : the city of exchange and the senses -- The (dis)continuous city -- The urban (un)seen -- Materialism, the sensuous city, and the materialist analytics of perception -- Aesthetics and the global polis : the return to beauty -- Designing the senses : Ikea and the urban emporium.
Offers an innovative, interdisciplinary approach which opens up new ways of understanding urban culture and space. The author approaches the city as essentially a 'material' place where people live, work, and participate in social practices within historical limits set not by sensory experience or cultural meanings but material social conditions.
Sociology, Urban.
Anthropology.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Physical anthropology.
Urban Studies/Sociology.
Anthropology.
Regional and Cultural Studies.
Biological and Physical Anthropology.