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Urban Smellscapes

Author : Victoria Henshaw
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135100969
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (351 download)

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Download or read book Urban Smellscapes written by Victoria Henshaw and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-31 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We see the city, we hear the city, but above all: we smell the city. Scent has unique qualities: ubiquity, persistence, and an unparalleled connection to memory, yet it has gone overlooked in discussions of sensory design. What scents shape the city? How does scent contribute to placemaking? How do we design smell environments in the city? Urban Smellscapes makes a notable contribution towards the growing body of literature on the senses and design by providing some answers to these questions and contributing towards the wider research agenda regarding how people sensually experience urban environments. It is the first of its kind in examining the role of smell specifically in contemporary experiences and perceptions of English towns and cities, highlighting the perception of urban smellscapes as inter-related with place perception, and describing odour’s contribution towards overall sense of place. With case studies from factories, breweries, urban parks, and experimental smell environments in Manchester and Grasse, Urban Smellscapes identifies processes by which urban smell environments are managed and controlled, and gives designers and city managers tools to actively use smell in their work.

City Smells

Author : Red Edit Red
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0615262090
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (152 download)

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Download or read book City Smells written by Red Edit Red and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-04-13 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cities are as much collections of smells as they are collections of bricks: smells define them. From one block to another you can be overwhelmed by any number of odours: the garbage outside a busy restaurant, flowers on display outside a florist or freshly ground coffee as you meander past an open door to a cafe. Some city smells make you sigh warmly and think of old friends; others, like those that seep out of dank alleyways, make you skip a step and screw up your nose. Those of us that live in cities cannot avoid the olfactory messages that the streets bombard us with. Nor should we. This book is an international collection of poetry, fiction and non-fiction dedicated to celebrating the redolent urban bouquet. So take a deep breath, and enjoy this assorted melange of City Smells.

Stink City

Author : Richard Walker Jennings
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618552481
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (524 download)

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Download or read book Stink City written by Richard Walker Jennings and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2006 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Something stinks about fishing. And as far as Cade Carlsen is concerned, it isn’t just his family’s best-selling catfish bait, either. While there is no denying that the secret recipe concocted by his grandfather does indeed produce one of the foulest odors ever known, it is not the bait’s smell but its effectiveness that bothers Cade. Fish feel pain, Cade is sure of it, so he and his family are complicit in the suffering and death of countless catfish. Cade is determined to make amends, but the question is, how?

Money Has No Smell

Author : Paul Stoller
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226775267
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Money Has No Smell written by Paul Stoller and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-03-05 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In February 1999 the tragic New York City police shooting of Amadou Diallo, an unarmed street vendor from Guinea, brought into focus the existence of West African merchants in urban America. In Money Has No Smell, Paul Stoller offers us a more complete portrait of the complex lives of West African immigrants like Diallo, a portrait based on years of research Stoller conducted on the streets of New York City during the 1990s. Blending fascinating ethnographic description with incisive social analysis, Stoller shows how these savvy West African entrepreneurs have built cohesive and effective multinational trading networks, in part through selling a simulated Africa to African Americans. These and other networks set up by the traders, along with their faith as devout Muslims, help them cope with the formidable state regulations and personal challenges they face in America. As Stoller demonstrates, the stories of these West African traders illustrate and illuminate ongoing debates about globalization, the informal economy, and the changing nature of American communities.

Senses and the City

Author : Mădălina Diaconu
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 3643502486
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (435 download)

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Download or read book Senses and the City written by Mădălina Diaconu and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2011 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers collected in this volume discuss the sensory dimension of cityscapes, with focus on touch and smell. Both have been traditionally considered "lower senses" and thus unworthy of being cultivated - objects of social prohibitions and targets of suppressing strategies in modern architecture and city planning. The book brings together approaches from anthropology, aesthetics, the theory of architecture, art and design research, psychophysiology, ethology, analytic chemistry, etc. (Series: Austria: Forschung und Wissenschaft - Interdisziplinar - Vol. 4)

New York, Phew York

Author : Amber C. Jones
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780984730827
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book New York, Phew York written by Amber C. Jones and published by . This book was released on 2012-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While on vacation in New York City, a child and his family explore nineteen neighborhoods and uncover the city's many scents.

Designing with Smell

Author : Victoria Henshaw
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317354613
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Designing with Smell written by Victoria Henshaw and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-05 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designing with Smell aims to inspire readers to actively consider smell in their work through the inclusion of case studies from around the world, highlighting the current use of smell in different cutting-edge design and artistic practices. This book provides practical guidance regarding different equipment, techniques, stages and challenges which might be encountered as part of this process. Throughout the text there is an emphasis on spatial design in numerous forms and interpretations – in the street, the studio, the theatre or exhibition space, as well as the representation of spatial relationships with smell. Contributions, originate across different geographical areas, academic disciplines and professions. This is crucial reading for students, academics and practitioners working in olfactory design.

New York Smells

Author : Caroline McKeldin
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312956325
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (563 download)

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Download or read book New York Smells written by Caroline McKeldin and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1995-10-15 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: /Caroline McKeldin This first-of-its-kind, postcard-sized guide book includes 21 postcards and labels for the reader's smelling pleasure. It features the picture and smell of a pretzel vendor, flowers on Park Avenue, the garlic smells of Little Italy, Lady Liberty (complete with the smelly Hudson River), the smell of hanging ducks in Chinatow

Keys to Good Cooking

Author : Harold McGee
Publisher : Appetite by Random House
ISBN 13 : 0449015998
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Keys to Good Cooking written by Harold McGee and published by Appetite by Random House. This book was released on 2013-02-19 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A requisite countertop companion for all home chefs, Keys to Good Cooking distils the modern scientific understanding of cooking and translates it into immediately useful information. The book provides simple statements of fact and advice, along with brief explanations that help cooks understand why, and apply that understanding to other situations. Not a cookbook, Keys to Good Cooking is, simply put, a book about how to cook well. A work of astounding scholarship and originality, this is a concise and authoritative guide designed to help home cooks navigate the ever-expanding universe of recipes and ingredients and appliances, and arrive at the promised land of a satisfying dish.

"Smelly" Kelly and His Super Senses

Author : Beth Anderson
Publisher : Astra Publishing House
ISBN 13 : 1635924545
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book "Smelly" Kelly and His Super Senses written by Beth Anderson and published by Astra Publishing House. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James "Smelly" Kelly used his super-senses and intelligence to make sure that the New York City subway in the 1930s ran safely throughout his lifetime and beyond. James Kelly smelled EVERYTHING: rats in the shed; circus elephants a mile away; tomorrow's rain. His sense of smell was EXTRAORDINARY. But what good was a powerful nose? How could his super-sniffer make him special? In the New York City subway, James found his calling--and earned the nickname "Smelly" Kelly. Armed with his super-sniffer and the tools he invented, he tracked down leaks from the dangerous to the disgusting, from the comical to the bizarre. Then, he sprang into action to prevent cave-ins and explosions in the tunnels beneath the city. Smelly Kelly not only hunted leaks but also saved lives--and he discovered the truly extraordinary power inside him. Beth Anderson's fast-paced text and Jenn Harney's comical illustrations bring to life this everyday superhero.

The Streets of Europe

Author : Brian Ladd
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022667813X
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (266 download)

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Download or read book The Streets of Europe written by Brian Ladd and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This is a sensory history and a sensual story told from street level . . . a clear and powerful account of the transformation of street life in Europe.” —Leora Auslander, author of Taste and Power Merchants’ shouts, jostling strangers, aromas of fresh fish and flowers, plodding horses, and friendly chatter long filled the narrow, crowded streets of the European city. As they developed over many centuries, these spaces of commerce, communion, and commuting framed daily life. At its heyday in the 1800s, the European street was the place where social worlds connected and collided. Brian Ladd recounts a rich social and cultural history of the European city street, tracing its transformation from a lively scene of trade and crowds into a thoroughfare for high-speed transportation. Looking closely at four major cities—London, Paris, Berlin, and Vienna—Ladd uncovers both the joys and the struggles of a past world. The story takes us up to the twentieth century, when the life of the street was transformed as wealthier citizens withdrew from the crowds to seek refuge in suburbs and automobiles. As demographics and technologies changed, so did the structure of cities and the design of streets, significantly shifting our relationships to them. In today’s world of high-speed transportation and impersonal marketplaces, Ladd leads us to consider how we might draw on our history to once again build streets that encourage us to linger. By unearthing the vivid descriptions recorded by amused and outraged contemporaries, Ladd reveals the changing nature of city life, showing why streets matter and how they can contribute to public life. “[A] dazzlingly kaleidoscopic overview of city life, city living, and city dying.” —Judith Flanders, author of The Invention of Murder

Smell and the Ancient Senses

Author : Mark Bradley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317565827
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book Smell and the Ancient Senses written by Mark Bradley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-17 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From flowers and perfumes to urban sanitation and personal hygiene, smell—a sense that is simultaneously sublime and animalistic—has played a pivotal role in western culture and thought. Greek and Roman writers and thinkers lost no opportunity to connect the smells that bombarded their senses to the social, political and cultural status of the individuals and environments that they encountered: godly incense and burning sacrifices, seductive scents, aromatic cuisines, stinking bodies, pungent farmyards and festering back-streets. The cultural study of smell has largely focused on pollution, transgression and propriety, but the olfactory sense came into play in a wide range of domains and activities: ancient medicine and philosophy, religion, botany and natural history, erotic literature, urban planning, dining, satire and comedy—where odours, aromas, scents and stenches were rich and versatile components of the ancient sensorium. The first comprehensive introduction to the role of smell in the history, literature and society of classical antiquity, Smell and the Ancient Senses explores and probes the ways that the olfactory sense can contribute to our perceptions of ancient life, behaviour, identity and morality.

The City and the Senses

Author : Dr Alexander Cowan
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1409479609
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book The City and the Senses written by Dr Alexander Cowan and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-06-28 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do we experience a city in terms of the senses? What are the inter-relations between human experience and behaviour in urban space? This volume examines these questions in the context of European urban culture between the fifteenth and twentieth centuries, exploring the institutions and ideologies relating to the range of sensual experience and its interpretation. Spanning pre-industrial and modern cities in Britain, France, Germany and the United States, it enables the reader to establish major contrasts and continuities in what is still an evolving urban experience. Divided into sections corresponding to the five senses: noise, vision, taste, touch and smell, each sections allows for comparisons which act as reminders that the experience of the city was a multi-sensual one, and that these experiences were as much intellectual as physical in their nature.

Sensing Cities

Author : Monica Montserrat Degen
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 0415397995
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (153 download)

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Download or read book Sensing Cities written by Monica Montserrat Degen and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work identifies an important aspect in the analysis of urban change in the late 20th century by highlighting the significance of the senses in the constitution of urban life.

Senses of the City

Author : Joseph S C Lam
Publisher : The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
ISBN 13 : 9629967863
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Senses of the City written by Joseph S C Lam and published by The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press. This book was released on 2017-03-15 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From its first designation as temporary capital in 1138, the city of Hangzhou (then called Lin’an) was deemed representative of the diminished empire of the Song (960–1279), in all its contradictory aspects. The exquisite beauty of the city confirmed its destiny to become an imperial residence, but it also portended its fatal corruption. The wealth and ease of Hangzhou epitomized the vigor of the southern empire as well as its oblivious decadence. The city was paramount and feeble, aweinspiring and threatened, the most admired city in the civilized world and a disgrace to the dynastic founders. Rather than perpetuating the debate about the merit of these polemical judgments, the contributors of Senses of the City treat them as expressions of their historical moment, revealing of ideological conviction or aesthetic preference, rather than of historical truth. By reading the sources as expressions of individual experience and political conviction, the contributors defy the impassioned rhetoric of past generations in order to recover the solid ground of historical evidence. Leading scholars of the field, including Beverly Bossler, Stephen West, and Martin Powers have produced essays that relate changes in literary convention to shifts in territorial boundaries, and analyze writing, painting, dance, and music as means by which individual literati placed themselves in time and space. The contributors reestablish the historical connections between writing and meaningful action, between text and world, between the sources and their own words, and between the page and the senses. Their efforts to retrieve the sounds, sights, and smells of Hangzhou from Southern Song texts replicate, in reverse direction, the attempts of twelfth and thirteenthcentury authors to devise effective tropes and suitable genres that would preserve their living impressions of the city in writing.

Smell Detectives

Author : Melanie A. Kiechle
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295741945
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (957 download)

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Download or read book Smell Detectives written by Melanie A. Kiechle and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2017-07-18 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What did nineteenth-century cities smell like? And how did odors matter in the formation of a modern environmental consciousness? Smell Detectives follows the nineteenth-century Americans who used their noses to make sense of the sanitary challenges caused by rapid urban and industrial growth. Melanie Kiechle examines nuisance complaints, medical writings, domestic advice, and myriad discussions of what constituted fresh air, and argues that nineteenth-century city dwellers, anxious about the air they breathed, attempted to create healthier cities by detecting and then mitigating the most menacing odors. Medical theories in the nineteenth century assumed that foul odors caused disease and that overcrowded cities—filled with new and stronger stinks—were synonymous with disease and danger. But the sources of offending odors proved difficult to pinpoint. The creation of city health boards introduced new conflicts between complaining citizens and the officials in charge of the air. Smell Detectives looks at the relationship between the construction of scientific expertise, on the one hand, and “common sense”—the olfactory experiences of common people—on the other. Although the rise of germ theory revolutionized medical knowledge and ultimately undid this form of sensory knowing, Smell Detectives recovers how city residents used their sense of smell and their health concerns about foul odors to understand, adjust to, and fight against urban environmental changes.

The Great Stink of London

Author : Stephen Halliday
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752493787
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)

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Download or read book The Great Stink of London written by Stephen Halliday and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2001-02-15 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'An extraordinary history' PETER ACKROYD, The Times 'A lively account of (Bazalgette's) magnificent achievements. . . graphically illustrated' HERMIONE HOBHOUSE 'Halliday is good on sanitary engineering and even better on cloaca, crud and putrefaction . . . (he) writes with the relish of one who savours his subject and has deeply researched it. . . splendidly illustrated' RUTH RENDELL In the sweltering summer of 1858, sewage generated by over two million Londoners was pouring into the Thames, producing a stink so offensive that it drove Members of Parliament from the chamber of the House of Commons. The Times called the crisis 'The Great Stink'. Parliament had to act – drastic measures were required to clean the Thames and to improve London's primitive system of sanitation. The great engineer entrusted with this enormous task was Sir Joseph Bazalgette, who rose to the challenge and built the system of intercepting sewers, pumping stations and treatment works that serves London to this day. In the process, he cleansed the Thames and helped banish cholera. The Great Stink of London offers a vivid insight into Bazalgette's achievements and the era in which he worked and lived, including his heroic battles with politicians and bureaucrats that would transform the face and health of the world's then largest city.