The City and the Senses - Urban Culture Since 1500 (Hardcover, New edition)

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.

General

Imprint:	Ashgate Publishing Limited
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Historical Urban Studies Series
Release date:	2007
First published:	2007
Authors:	Jill Steward
Editors:	Alexander Cowan
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	260
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-7546-0514-0
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > Urban communities Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Promotions
LSN:	0-7546-0514-0
Barcode:	9780754605140

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