The City of the Senses

Urban Culture and Urban Space
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-349-29384-1
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US

Buch, Englisch, 190 Seiten, Format (B × H): 210 mm x 297 mm, Gewicht: 544 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Defazio, K.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Physische Anthropologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Humanbiologie Physische Anthropologie, Paläoanthropologie, Evolutionäre Anthropologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

The City of Exchange and the Senses The (Dis)Continuous City  The Urban (Un)seen  Materialism, the Sensuous City, and the Materialist Analytics of Perception  Aesthetics and the Global Polis  Designing the Senses: IKEA and the Urban Emporium

Über Autor(innen)

Kimberly DeFazio teaches in the English Department at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. Her writings have appeared in such journals as e, and and in the edited collection