Title & Author:

Sense of the city : an alternate approach to urbanism / edited by Mirko Zardini ; with essays by Wolfgang Schivelbusch [and others].

Publication:

Montréal, QC : Canadian Centre for Architecture = Centre canadien d'architecture, 2005.

Description:

349 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

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.
"Challenging the dominance of vision, the essays brought together in this volume propose...a 'sensorial urbanism' whose aim it is to analyze urban phenomena in terms of luminosity and darkness, seasons and climate, the smell of the air, the material surfaces of the city, and sounds"--P. [4] of cover.
Accompanies the exhibition of the same name, held at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal, Oct. 25, 2005-Sept. 10, 2006.
Published also in French under the title: Sensations urbaines : une approche différente à l'urbanisme.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Also issued online.
Includes scenes of Montréal in winter and the Montreal Winter Carnival, as well as a brief section on the Vancouver soundscape and the World Soundscape Project.
Includes reproductions of CCA collection material.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

How do we perceive the urban settings that constitute the habitat of an ever greater proportion of the world's population? In recent years, we have sought to better understand subtle, sensorial qualities of the urban environment, looking at how our perception, judgment, and toleration of these phenomena are culturally and historically determined. Challenging the dominance of vision, the essays brought together in this volume propose a new approach, a "sensorial urbanism" whose aim it is to analyze urban phenomena in terms of luminosity and darkness, seasons and climate, the smeel of the air, the material surfaces of the city, and sounds. Mirko Zardini persuasively argues that these modes of experiencing the urban environment, largely absent from discourse on the city today, allow us to scrutinize the urban from a fresh point of view. He brings into focus an uncharted landscape of interdisciplinary research exploring crucial moments when technological and social factors, as well as changing attitudes toward "progress" and "nature" have brought about shifts in the use of perception of the urban environment. With the essays of Wolfgang Schivelbusch, Norman Pressman, Emily Thompson, Constance Classen, and David Howes, like his own study on asphalt, the second crust of the earth, Zardini's project deftly inverts foreground and background, showing us how the broad range of sensorial phenomena touched on here have determined - and will continue to determine - urban life.

ISBN:

0920785735
9780920785737
3037780606 (Lars Müller Publishers)
9783037780602 (Lars Müller Publishers)

Subject:

Cities and towns Canada History Exhibitions.
Cities and towns Canada Pictorial works Exhibitions.
City and town life Canada History Exhibitions.
City and town life Canada Pictorial works Exhibitions.
Cities and towns.
Villes.
Villes Canada Histoire Expositions.
Vie urbaine Canada Histoire Expositions.
Vie urbaine Canada Ouvrages illustrés Expositions.
cities.
City and town life.
Urbanisme.
Art urbain.
Organes des sens.
Canada.
World Soundscape Project.
Centre canadien d'architecture Collection

Form/genre:

Exhibition Publications.
exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition, pictorial works.
History.
Catalogues d'exposition.
Exhibition publications.

Added entries:

Zardini, Mirko.
Schivelbusch, Wolfgang, 1941-
Classen, Constance, 1957-
Howes, David, 1957-
Lambert, Phyllis
Latouche, Pierre-Edouard
Pressman, Norman
Thompson, Emily Ann
Tillett, Linnaea
Centre canadien d'architecture.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 241336
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Copy: c. 3
Notes: pbk.
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Copy: c. 6
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Notes: pbk.
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Notes: hd.
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Location: Library cage cca productions 241333
Call No.: 2005-6
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Notes: pbk.
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