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The feel of the city : experiences of urban transformation

Title
The feel of the city : experiences of urban transformation / Nicolas Kenny.
Author
Kenny, Nicolas, 1977-
Publication
  • Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2014]
  • ©2014

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xiv, 300 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm
Summary
  • "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"--
Subjects
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-294) and index.
Language (note)
  • Text in English.
Contents
Introduction : the body urban -- Comparable cities -- Image makers -- Encounters with industrial space -- Home for a rest -- Street scenes -- Conclusion : keeping in touch.
ISBN
  • 9781442647749
  • 1442647744
  • 9781442615816
  • 1442615818
LCCN
  • 2012361561
  • 99964269597
OCLC
  • ocn865495309
  • 865495309
  • SCSB-5818607
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Columbia University Libraries