City Life and the Senses

Bridge, Gary (editor) / Watson, Sophie (editor) / Urry, John (author)

The New Blackwell Companion to the City ; 347-356

Wiley‐Blackwell Companions to Geography

2011-02-25

10 pages

9781444395105 , 9781405189811

https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444395105.ch30

Article/Chapter (Book)

Electronic Resource

English

autonomization of sight, quantification and homogenization of visual experience , city life and the senses , visuality, hierarchy of senses within western culture ‐ the visual at the top , smell, in cultural construction ‐ of nineteenth‐century western city , Rodaway, a “sensuous geography” ‐ analyses of body, sense and space , Simmel, important points ‐ the eye a unique “sociological achievement” , Roderick, arguing ‐ smelly substances within houses and apartments , Britain, and visibility ‐ central to regulation of lower classes within new cities , powerful systems of modern incarceration ‐ complicity of sight in routine operations of power , intimacy of eye contact, urban expression in nineteenth‐century Paris ‐ sidewalk cafés, lovers “private in public”