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An inspiring visit to Canada Part 2/3: Visit to the EDGE Lab (Toronto) and Smell Curation

Smell and the City launched into 2014 last month with an inspiring visit over to the other side of the Atlantic, or more precisely to Vancouver on the West Coast … Continue reading

February 5, 2014 · 1 Comment

An inspiring visit to Canada Part 1/3: Designing with Smell Colloquium (Vancouver)

Smell and the City launched into 2014 last month with an inspiring visit over to the other side of the Atlantic, or more precisely to Vancouver on the West Coast … Continue reading

February 3, 2014 · 2 Comments

Happy New Year you Smell Aficionados! Welcome in 2014 with scented fireworks on the Thames

2013 has been one crazy year for Smell and the City and I really could not have done it without you fantastic folks sending me links to all the smell … Continue reading

December 31, 2013 · Leave a comment

Smell and the Steel City: How Does Sheffield Smell at Christmas time?

Image: Sheffield Christmas Markets, one of a collection of Christmas Cards by local artist Brian Smith: http://www.briansmithartist.co.uk/ Is it really starting to smell a lot like Christmas? Here’s your chance … Continue reading

December 9, 2013 · 4 Comments

Smell the City: Sewer Fat in London and Cardiff

    Back at the end of the summer, when all attention was yet again focussed upon New York City and those smells which seem to leak out into its … Continue reading

November 1, 2013 · 1 Comment

The Onges of the Andaman Islands and urban smell decay

The beautiful Andaman Islands   Blog by Kara C. Hoover, to see her blog click here A recent study by Ramesh Sahani on the changes to nutrition and body metrics (anthropometry) … Continue reading

September 10, 2013 · Leave a comment

Banana Oil, Breweries and Strong Fecal Odours: Historical Map of Manhattan’s Sewer Smells

  This weekend, I came across this fascinating google map of Manhattan’s historical sewer smells and loved it so much I had to share it on Smell and the City … Continue reading

August 26, 2013 · 2 Comments

My Book ‘Urban Smellscapes’ now out in the UK and 9 Sep 2013 in the US

Well everyone, I’ve resisted blogging about my book ‘Urban Smellscapes: Understanding and Designing City Smell Environments’ until now as I didn’t want to drive you all crazy by publication date, … Continue reading

August 18, 2013 · 2 Comments

Smellwalking in Manchester as part of the International Congress for the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, Manchester, 22-28 July 2013

The cooling and restorative environment of Manchester Canal I had a wonderful time yesterday afternoon smellwalking with a group of very interesting people as part of the International Congress for the … Continue reading

July 25, 2013 · 2 Comments

Of farewells and not forgotten… Scenes from The Perfumed Dandy’s American Adventure Part Five : Washington DC

Of farewells and not forgotten… Scenes from The Perfumed Dandy’s American Adventure Part Five : Washington DC.

June 25, 2013 · Leave a comment