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Terms and conditions applySense of the City: An Alternate Approach To Urbanism
Mirko Zardini
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Format: Unknown
Pages: 351
Publisher: Lars Muller
Date Published: Nov 2005
Stock Code: 4583
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How do we perceive the urban settings that constitute the habitat of so much of the world's population? The essays in this volume challenge the hegemony of visual perception, proposing 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. Zardini argues that these modes of perception can help us experience the city in a fresh way. There are five sections - Nocturnal City, Seasonal City, Sound of the City, Surface of the City and Air of the City, all presenting exhibits and essays to back up their case. Documents include strange photographs, old adverts, postcards, paintings and similar cultural detritus.
Sense of the City is published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name in the autumn 2005 in the renowned Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montral. These everyday discoveries were collected over a long time and then categorized according to their relationship with each other. The wide range of cities from which the examples were taken is reflected in the appearance of different languages (though the essays are all in English). There is a nagging fascination here; the book (and thus presumably the exhibition) makes more sense the more you look at it... and the more you look at it the more you'll want to look at it.
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