Dear Özgür,

The central reference is my former professor at the history dpt of the Sorbonne (1990s), Alain Corbin, who invented this approach in the early 1980s (he then taught at the University of Tours):

The founding book is:

- Le miasme et la jonquille. Odorat et imaginaire social (17e-19e s.), Paris, 1982 (English translation: The Foul and the Fragrant, Harvard University Press, 1986)

See also:

- Towards a History of the Senses (English translation), Wiley, 1995.

- Historien du sensible, Paris, La Découverte, 2000.

See also this 1990 paper: "Histoire et anthropologie sensorielle"

https://www.erudit.org/en/journals/as/1990-v14-n2-as785/015125ar.pdf

On A. Corbin:

S. Godfrey, "Making Sense of French History", French Historical Studies, 2002, 25-2, p.381-398

http://fhs.dukejournals.org/content/25/2/381.citation

Best regards

d.

Dear Özgür, a classical text is Georg Simmel's "Metropolis and Mental Life", available in almost every urban theory reader. Best wishes, João Pedro

Thank you very much for your suggestions and resources, I will examine each one.

Dear Özgür:

I believed you would be interested by this book:

Senses and Sensation: Critical and Primary Sources (D. Howes eds)

Best,

Rémi

Dear Özgür

You might also want to look at the journal The Senses & Society: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rfss20

which publishes a wide range of articles on different aspects of the senses, including the sensory aspects of cities.

All best wishes, Jacquelyn

Thank you all, thank you very much for your valuable informations.

According to me, 2 essential books : The sociolgy of sens from the german sociologist Georg Simmel, and, the foul and the fragant from the french historian Alain Corbin.

With both of them, you'll got the founding scientific littérature in social sciences.

Hope it 'll help you.

Christophe