TY - BOOK ID - 77864793 TI - Ornaments of the metropolis : Siegfried Kracauer and modern urban culture PY - 2004 SN - 0262282224 1423729463 9780262282222 9781423729464 PB - Cambridge, Mass. ; London : MIT Press, DB - UniCat KW - Urban beautification. KW - Architecture and society KW - Urban beautification KW - Architecture KW - Art, Architecture & Applied Arts KW - Architecture and sociology KW - Society and architecture KW - Sociology and architecture KW - Beautification of cities and towns KW - Cities and towns KW - City beautification KW - Embellisement (Urban renewal) KW - Embellishment, Urban KW - Embellissement (Urban renewal) KW - Urban embellishment KW - City planning KW - Urban policy KW - Urban renewal KW - History KW - Social aspects KW - Human factors KW - Beautification KW - Kracauer, Siegfried, KW - Ginster, KW - Kracauer, S. KW - Krakauėr, Z. KW - Krakauėr, Zigfrid KW - Criticism and interpretation. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77864793 AB - "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 "sociobiography" of Jacques Offenbach in Paris. Reeh argues that Kracauer's novel, essays, and historiography all suggest ways in which the subjective can reappropriate urban life. The book also includes a series of photographs by the author that reflect the ornamental experience of the metropolis in Paris, Frankfurt, and other cities."--Jacket. ER -