The Feel of the City : Experiences of Urban Transformation
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| Title: | The Feel of the City : Experiences of Urban Transformation |
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| Description: | At the start of the twentieth century, the modern metropolis was a riot of sensation. City dwellers lived in an environment filled with smoky factories, crowded homes, and lively thoroughfares. Sights, sounds, and smells flooded their senses, while changing conceptions of health and decorum forced many to rethink their most banal gestures, from the way they negotiated speeding traffic to the use they made of public washrooms.The Feel of the City exposes the sensory experiences of city-dwellers in Montreal and Brussels at the turn of the century and the ways in which these shaped the social and cultural significance of urban space. Using the experiences of municipal officials, urban planners, hygienists, workers, writers, artists, and ordinary citizens, Nicolas Kenny explores the implications of the senses for our understanding of modernity. |
| Authors: | Nicolas Kenny |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Community development, Urban--Que´bec (Province)--Montre´al--History--20th century, Urban ecology (Sociology)--Belgium--Brussels--History--20th century, Urban ecology (Sociology)--Que´bec (Province)--Montre´al--History--20th century, Community development, Urban--Belgium--Brussels--History--20th century |
| Categories: | SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography, HISTORY / Canada / General, HISTORY / Europe / General |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | At the start of the twentieth century, the modern metropolis was a riot of sensation. City dwellers lived in an environment filled with smoky factories, crowded homes, and lively thoroughfares. Sights, sounds, and smells flooded their senses, while changing conceptions of health and decorum forced many to rethink their most banal gestures, from the way they negotiated speeding traffic to the use they made of public washrooms.The Feel of the City exposes the sensory experiences of city-dwellers in Montreal and Brussels at the turn of the century and the ways in which these shaped the social and cultural significance of urban space. Using the experiences of municipal officials, urban planners, hygienists, workers, writers, artists, and ordinary citizens, Nicolas Kenny explores the implications of the senses for our understanding of modernity. |
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| ISBN: | 9781442615816 9781442647749 9781442669055 9781442669062 |
