The American Skyscraper: Cultural HistoriesRoberta Moudry Cambridge University Press, 09.05.2005 - 281 Seiten More than any other phenomenon, the skyscraper has determined the character of the American city, altering its physicality and land use patterns; prompting design, technological, and infrastructure developments; creating internal work environments; and redefining boundaries and expectations of individuals and groups defined by gender, class, and ethnicity. This volume examines the various dimensions of the skyscraper in its American urban context. Focusing on the major skyscraper cities of New York and Chicago between 1870 and 1960, the studies in this volume address many of the major aspects of the skyscraper through a diversity of disciplines, including planning and public policy, art and architectural history, labor and business history, and American studies. The result is a kaleidoscopic view of the skyscraper, a building type whose existence as object and icon is inextricably linked to the city itself. |
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The BeauxArts Architect and the Skyscraper Cass Gilbert the Professional Engineer and the Rationalization of Construction in Chicago and New York | 17 |
Law Makes Order The Search for Ensemble in the Skyscraper City 18901930 | 36 |
The Female Souls of the Skyscraper | 61 |
1N THE 1MAGE OF THE CL1ENT | 81 |
Type and Building Type NewspaperOffice Buildings in NineteenthCentury New York | 83 |
Chicagos Fraternity Temples The Origins of Skyscraper Rhetoric and the First of the Worlds Tallest Office Buildings | 96 |
The Corporate and the Civic Metropolitan Lifes Home Office Building | 118 |
The Chicago Tribune Tower Competition Publicity Imagines Community | 145 |
The Heights and Depths of Urbanism Fifth Avenue and the Creative Destruction of Manhattan | 163 |
Built Languages of Class Skyscrapers and Labor Protest in Victorian Public Space | 183 |
The Skyscraper Ensemble in Its Urban Context Rockefeller Center | 199 |
The Shadow of the Skyscraper Urban Photography and Metropolitan Irrationalism in the Stieglitz Circle | 215 |
The Skyscraper Gender and Mental Life Sophie Treadwells Play Machina1 1928 | 232 |
The Sublime and the Skyline The New York Skyscraper | 253 |
Selected Bibliography | 269 |
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