The Feel of the City: Experiences of Urban Transformation - Softcover

Nicolas Kenny

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1442615818 ISBN 13: 9781442615816

Publisher: University of Toronto Press, 2014

Synopsis

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 this title

Review:

'Kenny treats readers to an unusual but fascinating and valuable perspective on industrialization and urbanization... Highly recommended.'

- J. Rogers - Choice Magazine, vol 52:02:2015

About the Author:

Nicolas Kenny is an assistant professor in the Department of History at Simon Fraser University.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1442615818
• ISBN 13: 9781442615816
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272