Senses In Cities

Author : Kelvin E.Y. Low,Devorah Kalekin-Fishman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315527352

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Senses in Cities by Kelvin E.Y. Low,Devorah Kalekin-Fishman Pdf

Urban landscapes are usually thought of first and foremost as engineered formations designed for functionality. It is quite clear, however, that cities and towns are sites of social structure, scenes of diversity, and hotbeds of transgressions. They are also sources of satisfying social relationships, settings for actions negotiated on an everyday basis, and opportunities for kinesthetic and aesthetic experiences. Within these processes, the senses mediate engagement with the optimism of urban growth, the comfort of urban traditions, and a consciousness of the diverse relationships that embellish urban living, but also with the repellent sights and sounds that invade zones of comfort. This book examines how qualities of place and their sensuous reorganisation elucidate particular sociocultural expressions and practices in urban life. The collection illuminates how urban environments are distinguished, valued, or reconfigured with the senses as media for evaluating authentic spaces and places that endure and change over time.

Author : Mădălina Diaconu
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9783643502483

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Senses and the City by Mădălina Diaconu Pdf

The papers collected in this volume discuss the sensory dimension of cityscapes, with focus on touch and smell. Both have been traditionally considered "lower senses" and thus unworthy of being cultivated - objects of social prohibitions and targets of suppressing strategies in modern architecture and city planning. The book brings together approaches from anthropology, aesthetics, the theory of architecture, art and design research, psychophysiology, ethology, analytic chemistry, etc. (Series: Austria: Forschung und Wissenschaft - Interdisziplinar - Vol. 4)

Author : Jill Steward
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317038139

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The City and the Senses by Jill Steward Pdf

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.

Author : Ferne Edwards,Roos Gerritsen,Grit Wesser
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-23
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781000360707

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Food, Senses and the City by Ferne Edwards,Roos Gerritsen,Grit Wesser Pdf

This work explores diverse cultural understandings of food practices in cities through the senses, drawing on case studies in the Americas, Asia, Australia, and Europe. The volume includes the senses within the popular field of urban food studies to explore new understandings of how people live in cities and how we can understand cities through food. It reveals how the senses can provide unique insight into how the city and its dwellers are being reshaped and understood. Recognising cities as diverse and dynamic places, the book provides a wide range of case studies from food production to preparation and mediatisation through to consumption. These relationships are interrogated through themes of belonging and homemaking to discuss how food, memory, and materiality connect and disrupt past, present, and future imaginaries. As cities become larger, busier, and more crowded, this volume contributes to actual and potential ways that the senses can generate new understandings of how people live together in cities. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of critical food studies, urban studies, and socio-cultural anthropology.

Author : K. DeFazio
Publisher : Springer
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230370357

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The City of the Senses by K. DeFazio Pdf

Offers an innovative, interdisciplinary approach which opens up new ways of understanding urban culture and space. The author approaches the city as essentially a 'material' place where people live, work, and participate in social practices within historical limits set not by sensory experience or cultural meanings but material social conditions.

Author : Joseph S C Lam
Publisher : The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9789629967864

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Senses of the City by Joseph S C Lam Pdf

From its first designation as temporary capital in 1138, the city of Hangzhou (then called Lin’an) was deemed representative of the diminished empire of the Song (960–1279), in all its contradictory aspects. The exquisite beauty of the city confirmed its destiny to become an imperial residence, but it also portended its fatal corruption. The wealth and ease of Hangzhou epitomized the vigor of the southern empire as well as its oblivious decadence. The city was paramount and feeble, aweinspiring and threatened, the most admired city in the civilized world and a disgrace to the dynastic founders. Rather than perpetuating the debate about the merit of these polemical judgments, the contributors of Senses of the City treat them as expressions of their historical moment, revealing of ideological conviction or aesthetic preference, rather than of historical truth. By reading the sources as expressions of individual experience and political conviction, the contributors defy the impassioned rhetoric of past generations in order to recover the solid ground of historical evidence. Leading scholars of the field, including Beverly Bossler, Stephen West, and Martin Powers have produced essays that relate changes in literary convention to shifts in territorial boundaries, and analyze writing, painting, dance, and music as means by which individual literati placed themselves in time and space. The contributors reestablish the historical connections between writing and meaningful action, between text and world, between the sources and their own words, and between the page and the senses. Their efforts to retrieve the sounds, sights, and smells of Hangzhou from Southern Song texts replicate, in reverse direction, the attempts of twelfth and thirteenthcentury authors to devise effective tropes and suitable genres that would preserve their living impressions of the city in writing.

Author : Alexander Cowan,Jill Steward
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:501329180

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The City and the Senses by Alexander Cowan,Jill Steward Pdf

Author : Victoria Henshaw
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-31
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781135100957

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Urban Smellscapes by Victoria Henshaw Pdf

We see the city, we hear the city, but above all: we smell the city. Scent has unique qualities: ubiquity, persistence, and an unparalleled connection to memory, yet it has gone overlooked in discussions of sensory design. What scents shape the city? How does scent contribute to placemaking? How do we design smell environments in the city? Urban Smellscapes makes a notable contribution towards the growing body of literature on the senses and design by providing some answers to these questions and contributing towards the wider research agenda regarding how people sensually experience urban environments. It is the first of its kind in examining the role of smell specifically in contemporary experiences and perceptions of English towns and cities, highlighting the perception of urban smellscapes as inter-related with place perception, and describing odour’s contribution towards overall sense of place. With case studies from factories, breweries, urban parks, and experimental smell environments in Manchester and Grasse, Urban Smellscapes identifies processes by which urban smell environments are managed and controlled, and gives designers and city managers tools to actively use smell in their work.

Author : Mirko Zardini,Wolfgang Schivelbusch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : UOM:39015064912291

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Sense of the City by Mirko Zardini,Wolfgang Schivelbusch Pdf

With essays by Wolfgang Schivelbusch, Norman Pressman, Emily Thompson, Mirko Zardini, Constance Classen and David Howes.

Author : Ferne Edwards,Roos Gerritsen,Grit Wesser
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : 036772362X

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Food, Senses and the City by Ferne Edwards,Roos Gerritsen,Grit Wesser Pdf

This work explores diverse cultural understandings of food practices in cities through the senses, drawing on case studies in the Americas, Asia, Australia, and Europe. The volume includes the senses within the popular field of urban food studies to explore new understandings of how people live in cities and how we can understand cities through food. It reveals how the senses can provide unique insight into how the city and its dwellers are being reshaped and understood. Recognising cities as diverse and dynamic places, the book provides a wide range of case studies from food production to preparation and mediatisation through to consumption. These relationships are interrogated through themes of belonging and homemaking to discuss how food, memory, and materiality connect and disrupt past, present, and future imaginaries. As cities become larger, busier, and more crowded, this volume contributes to actual and potential ways that the senses can generate new understandings of how people live together in cities. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of critical food studies, urban studies, and socio-cultural anthropology.

Author : Jan Gehl
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-05
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781597269841

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Cities for People by Jan Gehl Pdf

For more than forty years Jan Gehl has helped to transform urban environments around the world based on his research into the ways people actually use—or could use—the spaces where they live and work. In this revolutionary book, Gehl presents his latest work creating (or recreating) cityscapes on a human scale. He clearly explains the methods and tools he uses to reconfigure unworkable cityscapes into the landscapes he believes they should be: cities for people. Taking into account changing demographics and changing lifestyles, Gehl emphasizes four human issues that he sees as essential to successful city planning. He explains how to develop cities that are Lively, Safe, Sustainable, and Healthy. Focusing on these issues leads Gehl to think of even the largest city on a very small scale. For Gehl, the urban landscape must be considered through the five human senses and experienced at the speed of walking rather than at the speed of riding in a car or bus or train. This small-scale view, he argues, is too frequently neglected in contemporary projects. In a final chapter, Gehl makes a plea for city planning on a human scale in the fast- growing cities of developing countries. A “Toolbox,” presenting key principles, overviews of methods, and keyword lists, concludes the book. The book is extensively illustrated with over 700 photos and drawings of examples from Gehl’s work around the globe.

Author : Ellen Lupton,Andrea Lipps
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-24
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781616897741

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The Senses by Ellen Lupton,Andrea Lipps Pdf

A powerful reminder to anyone who thinks design is primarily a visual pursuit, The Senses accompanies a major exhibition at the Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum that explores how space, materials, sound, and light affect the mind and body. Learn how contemporary designers, including Petra Blaisse, Bruce Mau, Malin+Goetz and many others, engage sensory experience. Multisensory design can solve problems and enhance life for everyone, including those with sensory disabilities. Featuring thematic essays on topics ranging from design for the table to tactile graphics, tactile sound, and visualizing the senses, this book is a call to action for multisensory design practice. The Senses: Design Beyond Vision is mandatory reading for students and professionals working in diverse fields, including products, interiors, graphics, interaction, sound, animation, and data visualization, or anyone seeking the widest possible understanding of design. The book, designed by David Genco with Ellen Lupton, is edited by Lupton and curator Andrea Lipps. Includes essays by Lupton, Lipps, Christopher Brosius, Hansel Bauman, Karen Kraskow, Binglei Yan, and Simon Kinnear.

Author : Gary Bridge,Sophie Watson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 659 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2008-06-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780470707524

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A Companion to the City by Gary Bridge,Sophie Watson Pdf

A Companion to the City provides the reader with an indispensable and authoritative overview of the key debates, controversies, and questions concerning the city from a variety of theoretical vantage points with an international perspective. Indispensable companion for students of the City. Multidisciplinary approach of interest across several fields. Includes contributions from major scholars in the field.

Author : Diane Ackerman
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011-12-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780307763310

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A Natural History of the Senses by Diane Ackerman Pdf

Diane Ackerman's lusciously written grand tour of the realm of the senses includes conversations with an iceberg in Antarctica and a professional nose in New York, along with dissertations on kisses and tattoos, sadistic cuisine and the music played by the planet Earth. “Delightful . . . gives the reader the richest possible feeling of the worlds the senses take in.” —The New York Times

Author : Laine Falk,Joan Michael
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0531297225

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Let's Explore the Five Senses with City Dog and Country Dog by Laine Falk,Joan Michael Pdf

The activities of Charlie--a city dog--and Buttercup--a country dog--present a simple introduction to the five senses.