The City and the Senses: Urban Culture Since 1500Routledge, 16.03.2016 - 260 Seiten 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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Stench in sixteenthcentury Venice | |
touch as a measure of social | |
Speaking and listening in early modern London | |
Engineering vision in early modern Paris | |
contact sensibility and the city | |
the Bourgeois faecal experience in the nineteenth | |
the nutritional and social significance | |
Boulevard culture and advertising as spectacle in nineteenthcentury Paris | |
food as a signifier of urban modernity in Vienna 1890 | |
Lesser Ury the painter as stranger | |
celebrating the Liberation of Paris in music and dance | |
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The City and the Senses: Urban Culture Since 1500 Dr Alexander Cowan,Dr Jill Steward Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2013 |
The City and the Senses: Urban Culture Since 1500 Alexander Cowan,Jill Steward Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2007 |
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