The City of the Senses Urban Culture and Urban Space
Offers an innovative, interdisciplinary approach which opens up new ways of understanding urban culture and space. The author approaches the city as essentially a 'material' place where people live, work, and participate in social practices within histori
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The City of the Senses Urban Culture and Urban Space
Kimberly DeFazio
the city of the senses Copyright © Kimberly DeFazio, 2011. Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2011 All rights reserved. First published in 2011 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN® in the United States—a division of St. Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Where this book is distributed in the UK, Europe, and the rest of the world, this is by Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN 978-1-349-29384-1
ISBN 978-0-230-37035-7 (eBook)
DOI 10.1057/9780230370357 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data DeFazio, Kimberly, 1970The city of the senses : urban culture and urban space / Kimberly DeFazio. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. 1. Urbanization. 2. Sociology, Urban. 3. Visual sociology. I. Title. HT361.D44 2011 307.76–dc22
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A catalogue record of the book is available from the British Library. This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. Logging, pulping and manufacturing processes are expected to conform to the environmental regulations of the country of origin. Design by Scribe Inc. First edition: October 2011 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
For Rosemary, Nicholas, Aaron, and Lily
Contents Acknowledgments
ix
Introduction: The City of Exchange and the Senses
1
1
The (Dis)Continuous City
17
2
The Urban (Un)Seen
53
3
Materialism, the Sensuous City, and the Materialist Analytics of Perception
85
4
Aesthetics and the Global Polis: The Return to Beauty
121
5
Designing the Senses: IKEA and the Urban Emporium
157
Notes
167
Works Cited
173
Index
187
Acknowledgments My work has benefitted enormously from the support of many family members and colleagues. I would like to especially thank for their many years of family support Leslie, Allan, Jim, Debby, Trudy, Jason, Jared, Dennis, Gary, Christine, Bob, Terry, Vik, Christopher, and above all, Rob. I would also like to thank for their intellectual generosity all those who have commented on and critiqued my book in its various stages. For their very thoughtful and attentive editorial assistance, I am grateful to Burke Gerstenschlager and Kaylan Connally, and for their careful work on production and design, I would like to thank Daniel Constantino and Joel Breukland. Some of the chapters of this book are broadly based on my essays that were published in earlier forms in The Red Critique. Earlier versions of “Crash and the Ethnic Within” (no. 12, 2007) and “Humanities and the City of Labor” (no. 9, 2003) appear in Chapter 1. Chapter 2 develops aspects of “The Imperial Eye: Textualist Visuality and Class” (
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