The Feel of the City
Experiences of Urban Transformation
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Initial publish date
- Jun 2014
- Category
- Geography, General, General
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9781442647749
- Publish Date
- Jun 2014
- List Price
- $86.00
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781442615816
- Publish Date
- Jun 2014
- List Price
- $45.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781442669062
- Publish Date
- Jun 2014
- List Price
- $35.95
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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.
About the author
Nicolas Kenny is an assistant professor in the Department of History at Simon Fraser University.
Editorial Reviews
‘Kenny treats readers to an unusual but fascinating and valuable perspective on industrialization and urbanization… Highly recommended.’
Choice Magazine, vol 52:02:2015