The city of the senses
Subtitle: urban culture and urban space
By: Kimberly DeFazio
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; Springer
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 190
ISBN-13: 9780230111592
Subjects: Urbanization; Urban Sociology; Visual sociology
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-186) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the city of exchange and the senses; title: The (dis)continuous city; title: The urban (un)seen; title: Materialism, the sensuous city, and the materialist analytics of perception; title: Aesthetics and the global polis : the return to beauty; title: Designing the senses : Ikea and the urban emporium.