The Feel of the City: Experiences of Urban Transformation

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At the start of the twentieth century, the up to date metropolis was once a rebel of sensation. City dwellers lived in an environment filled with smoky factories, crowded homes, and full of life thoroughfares. Sights, sounds, and smells flooded their senses, even as changing conceptions of health and decorum forced many to rethink their most banal gestures, from the best 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 on the turn of the century and the ways by which these shaped the social and cultural significance of urban space. The usage of the experiences of municipal officials, urban planners, hygienists, workers, writers, artists, and unusual citizens, Nicolas Kenny explores the implications of the senses for our understanding of modernity.

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