The feel of the city : experiences of urban transformation / Nicolas Kenny.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kenny, Nicolas, 1977- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Urban ecology (Sociology)--Belgium--Brussels--History--20th century.

Urban ecology (Sociology).

Urban ecology (Sociology)--Québec (Province)--Montréal--History--20th century.

Community development, Urban--Belgium--Brussels--History--20th century.

Community development, Urban.

Community development, Urban--Québec (Province)--Montréal--History--20th century.

History.

Belgium--Brussels.

Physical Description:

xiv, 300 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Experiences of urban transformation

Place of Publication:

Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2014]

Summary:

For all the sophisticated economic models and planning theories, the state-of-the-art technologies, and the avant-garde aesthetics that defined modernity, urban dwellers, like all human beings, experienced the world around them through their sight and their hearing, their smell and their touch. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction : the body urban

Comparable cities

Image makers

Encounters with industrial space

Home for a rest

Street scenes

Conclusion : keeping in touch.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781442647749

1442647744

9781442615816

1442615818

OCLC:

865495309