The City Of The Senses

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 historical limits set not by sensory experience or cultural meanings but material social conditions.

Review: The City of Senses is a timely contribution to understanding the 'geography of labor' and its relation to the injustices facing working people across the globe. DeFazio opens up our senses - to become more acutely aware - of how capitalist relations of production eclipse human needs in the overwhelming panorama of consumption and greed we know as neoliberal capitalism.

A precise and thorough undertaking that offers a materialist reading of social practices often relegated to the cultural realm, this is critical theory at its best. - Nathalia E. Jaramillo, Assistant Professor, Educational Studies and Cultural Foundations, Purdue University The City of the Senses is genuinely path-breaking.

Its argument is not just a timely intervention in ongoing debates about the city but a comprehensive challenge to contemporary urban theory. DeFazio's analysis and argument are magisterially informed, offering transformative interpretations of texts and films from Wordsworth's poetry tos