Smell and the City: How Does Smell Factor into Good Urban Design?
We see the city, we hear the city, but, above all, we smell the city. In a landmark new book, Dr. Victoria Henshaw, Lecturer in Urban Design and Planning at the University of Sheffield, UK, discusses the use of smell in good urban design. Urban Smellscapes: Understanding and Designing City Smell Environments, published by Routledge/Taylor & Francis, is an historical and practical guide to designing smell environments in the city.Scent has unique qualities: ubiquity, persistence, and an unparalleled connection to memory, yet it has gone overlooked in discussions of sensory design. What