The city and the senses : urban culture since 1500 /
These essays, for the most part, focus on the history of particular sensations, but together they point to the importance of situating them in the context of a wider understanding of the relationship between the human body as sensorium and its urban environment.
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| Other Authors / Creators: | Cowan, Alexander. Steward, Jill. |
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| Natura: | Libro |
| Lingua: | English |
| Imprint: | Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2007] |
| Serie: | Historical urban studies.
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| Accesso online: | Table of contents Table of contents Table of contents Table of contents Book review (H-Net) |
| Riassunto: | These essays, for the most part, focus on the history of particular sensations, but together they point to the importance of situating them in the context of a wider understanding of the relationship between the human body as sensorium and its urban environment. How do we experience a city in terms of the senses? What are the inter-relations between human experience and behaviour in urban space? This volume examines these questions in the context of European urban culture between the fifteenth and twentieth centuries, exploring the institutions and ideologies relating to the range of sensual experience and its interpretation. Spanning pre-industrial and modern cities in Britain, France, Germany and the United States, it enables the reader to establish major contrasts and continuities in what is still an evolving urban experience. Divided into sections corresponding to the five senses: noise, vision, taste, touch and smell, each sections allows for comparisons which act as reminders that the experience of the city was a multi-sensual one, and that these experiences were as much intellectual as physical in their nature. |
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| Descrizione fisica: | xiii, 245 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0754605140 9780754605140 |
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