The city of the senses : urban culture and urban space / Kimberly DeFazio.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

DeFazio, Kimberly, 1970-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Urbanization.

Sociology, Urban.

Visual sociology.

Physical Description:

ix, 190 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

Summary:

Offering an innovative, interdisciplinary approach to the city which opens up new ways of understanding urban culture and urban 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 by material social conditions. Urban cultural theory, the book contends, needs to understand the human senses in the context of (imperceptible) material relations of production so as to take part in the struggle to transform them. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction : 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 : the return to beauty

Designing the senses : Ikea and the urban emporium.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [173]-186) and index.

ISBN:

9780230111592

0230111599

OCLC:

710903896