Ornaments of the metropolis : Siegfried Kracauer and modern urban culture /

"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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Reeh, Henrik
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Danés
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2004.
Subjects:
Kracauer, Siegfried, > 1889-1966 > Criticism and interpretation.
Kracauer, Siegfried, > 1889-1966
1900-1999
Urban beautification.
Architecture and society > History > 20th century.
Architecture et société > Histoire > 20e siècle.
ARCHITECTURE > Urban & Land Use Planning.
Architecture and society.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • From everyday life as an architect to urban consciousness
  • From individual city cognition to the encounter with the metropolitan crisis of memory
  • The city-A sphere for collective memory.

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