| Description |
xvi, 281 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-274) and index. |
| Contents |
The beaux-arts architect and the skyscraper : Cass Gilbert, the professional engineer, and the rationalization of construction in Chicago and New York / Gail Fenske -- Law makes order : the search for ensemble in the skyscraper city, 1890-1930 / Keith D. Revell -- The female "souls of the skyscraper" / Lisa M. Fine -- Type and building type : newspaper/office buildings in nineteenth-century New York / Lee E. Gray -- Chicago's fraternity temples : the origins of skyscraper rhetoric and the first of the world's tallest office buildings / Edward W. Wolner -- The corporate and the civic : Metropolitan Life's home office building / Roberta Moudry -- The Chicago Tribune tower competition : publicity imagines community / Katherine Solomonson -- The heights and depths of urbanism : Fifth Avenue and the creative destruction of Manhattan / Max Page -- Built languages of class : skyscrapers and labor protest in Victorian public space / Sarah Watts -- The skyscraper ensemble in its urban context : Rockefeller Center / Carol Herselle Krinsky -- The shadow of the skyscraper : urban photography and metropolitan irrationalism in the Stieglitz circle / Antonello Frongia -- The skyscraper, gender, and mental life : Sophie Treadwell's play Machinal of 1928 / Merrill Schleier -- The sublime and the skyline : the New York skyscraper / David E. Nye. |
| Subject |
Skyscrapers -- United States.
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Skyscrapers. |
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United States. |
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Skyscrapers -- New York (State) -- New York.
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New York (State) -- New York. |
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Skyscrapers -- Illinois -- Chicago.
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Illinois -- Chicago. |
| Added Author |
Moudry, Roberta.
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| ISBN |
0521624215 |
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