Offers an innovative, interdisciplinary approach which opens up new ways of understanding urban culture and 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 material social conditions. KIMBERLY DEFAZIO Visiting Assistant Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences in at Clarkson University, New York, USA. INDICE: 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 - Designing the Senses: IKEA and the Urban Emporium
- ISBN: 978-0-230-11159-2
- Editorial: Palgrave MacM
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 200
- Fecha Publicación: 28/10/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés