The cultural theorist Siegfried Kracauer claimed, “one’s body takes root in the asphalt.” This course begins with that claim to explore sensuous encounters in and with the city. Smells, sounds, visions, textures, and tastes mark cities as environments that cultivate hedonism, pleasure, and desire. How do bodies and senses order space and configure experience? How do we ‘make sense’ in and through urban environments? If we take cities as sensory sites, what are some research strategies we can use to explore the relationship between bodies and cities? The course provides a framework for exploration of various understandings of cities, bodies, experience, and the senses as presented and expressed in social theory, art, film, music, and literature. Using a transdisciplinary perspective, students are encouraged to experiment with creative approaches to understanding unique and diverse embodied, urban experiences. We address collective and individual bodies and the associated politics engaged and activated by subjective and social configurations.