TY  - BOOK
AU  - Reeh,Henrik
TI  - Ornaments of the metropolis: Siegfried Kracauer and modern urban culture 
SN  - 0262182378
AV  - NA9052 .R44 2004
U1  - 720.1030904 22
PY  - 2004///]
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - MIT Press
KW  - Kracauer, Siegfried,
KW  - Urban beautification
KW  - Architecture and society
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-242) and index; 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 experience --; Ch. 7; Space analysis and social critique --; Ch. 8; Improvisation and memory --; Ch. 9; History and urban collectivity
N2  - "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."--BOOK JACKET
ER  -