Ornaments of the metropolis : Siegfried Kracauer and modern urban culture / Henrik Reeh ; translated...
Ornaments of the metropolis : Siegfried Kracauer and modern urban culture / Henrik Reeh ; translated...
Ornaments of the metropolis : Siegfried Kracauer and modern urban culture / Henrik Reeh ; translated by John Irons.
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Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2005.
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Date
2005.
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N720.10309/2
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English
Danish
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Physical content
x, 248 p.
Contents
Ch. 1. The resubjectivization of modern urban culture -- Ch. 2. The everyday life and urban perception of the architect -- Ch. 3. Beyond functional space : the ornament -- Ch. 4. Discovering the city as a reflective space -- Ch. 5. Ornament, ratio, and reason -- Ch. 6. Urban ornaments and subjective...
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Publisher
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2005.
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Massachusetts
Date Published
2005.
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State Reference Library copy: To be issued in Supervised Use Area.
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Summary
"For Siegfried Kracauer the urban ornament was not just an aspect of design, it was the medium through which city dwellers interpreted the metropolis itself. In Ornaments of the Metropolis, Henrik Reeh traces variations on the theme of the ornament in Kracauer's writings on urbanism, from his early journalism in Germany between the wars to his "soc...
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Ornaments of the metropolis : Siegfried Kracauer and modern urban culture / Henrik Reeh ; translated by John Irons.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Translation of: Storbyens ornamenter.
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Other version (online)
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N720.10309/2
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74VKPGDBrALy
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ISBN
0262182378 (alk. paper)
9780262182379 (alk. paper)
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720.1030904
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991019680369702626
