Sense of the City: An Alternative Approach to Urbanism Canadian Centre for Architecture and Lars Müller Publisher, 2005 Challenging the dominance of vision, Sense of the City: An Alternative Approach to Urbanism proposes a new approach—a “sensorial urbanism” whose aim 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. Sense of the City accompanies the 2005 CCA exhibition of the same name. Following the thematic structure of the exhibition, the book comprises a critical interpretation of the city through sensory experience. The city at night, as well as its seasons, sounds, surfaces and smells, serve as the organizing themes. Edited by Mirko Zardini Essays by Constance Classen, David Howes, Norman Pressman, Wolfgang Schivelbusch, Emily Thompson, and Mirko Zardini. Foreword by Phyllis Lambert. Graphic design by Integral Lars Müller.