9781442647749

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9781442615816

1442615818

"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"-- Publisher description.

Introduction : the body urban

Comparable cities

Image makers

Encounters with industrial space

Home for a rest

Street scenes

Conclusion : keeping in touch.

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

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

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

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