An insight into the urban smellscape: the transformation of traditional to contemporary urban place experience

Sensescape, predominantly explored from the viewpoint of viewscape and soundscape, needs investigation other senses such as smell, a vital part place experience. The experience not only depends on but also how act within context. Cities across developing countries, with dynamic tension coexistence between traditional modern, are experiencing transformations, inducing major alterations in urban land-use systems have started to impact upon smellscapes diversities. Smellscape is complex phenomenon posing challenges reductionist approach for better insight, hence requiring an effective conceptual framework analyzing smellscape reference transformations cities. Four node precinct typologies, representative cases namely, traditional, partially transformed, transformed majorly nodes, assessed presented this paper. experience, their interconnectedness, interdependency investigated Based interpretive epistemology cognition framework, paper posits that has role it correlates influences liking, provides clues theory building assessment smellscape, underexplored intangible aspect sensory