The sensorial map of the city

Our daily urban experiences are the product of our perceptions and senses [7], yet the complete sensorial range is strikingly ab-sent from urban studies. Sight has been historically privileged over the other senses and urban studies often focused on the visual di-mension of cities [4, 3]. However, smell and sound have a huge influence over how we perceive places, they impact our behavior, attitudes and health. Yet, city planning is concerned only with a few bad smells and with limiting noise levels. Not knowing what smells and sounds exist in cities may result in partial views of the collective image of our urban areas, the prolif-eration of clone towns (as smell and sound contribute to the city’s identity [1, 9]), and in reinforcing socio-economic boundaries, as smell and sound that provide insights into the social life of cities are used (often unconsciously) as invisible markers between neigh