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| Document Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Mirko Zardini; Wolfgang Schivelbusch; Centre canadien d'architecture.; et al |
| ISBN: | 0920785735 9780920785737 3037780606 9783037780602 |
| OCLC Number: | 61476345 |
| Notes: | Issued also in French under title: Sensations urbaines. Accompanies the exhibition Sense of the city organized by the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal held from Oct. 25, 2005 - Sept. 10, 2006. |
| Description: | 349 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Preface / Phyllis Lambert -- Toward a sensorial urbanism / Mirko Zardini -- Nocturnal city -- Nightfall fear in the street / Wolfgang Schivelbusch -- From safe to lively streets / Linnaea Tillett -- Seasonal city -- Ice for tourists / Pierre-Édouard Latouche -- Idea of winterness : embracing ice and snow / Norman Pressman -- Sound of the city -- Noise and noise abatement in the modern city / Emily Thompson -- Surface of the city -- Ground of the modern city and the preponderance of asphalt / Mirko Zardini -- Air of the city -- Deodorized city : battling urban stench in the nineteenth century / Constance Classen -- Architecture of the senses / David Howes -- Sensory stirrings / David Howes -- Appendices. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Mirko Zardini ; with essays by Wolfgang Schivelbusch ... [et al.]. |
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