The American skyscraper : cultural histories /
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| Imprint: | New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005. |
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| Description: | xvi, 281 p. : ill. ; 27 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5645265 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Illustrations
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part 1. Makers and Users
- 1. The Beaux-Arts Architect and the Skyscraper: Cass Gilbert, the Professional Engineer, and the Rationalization of Construction in Chicago and New York
- 2. Law Makes Order: The Search for Ensemble in the Skyscraper City, 1890-1930
- 3. The Female "Souls of the Skyscraper"
- Part 2. In the Image of the Client
- 4. Type and Building Type: Newspaper/Office Buildings in Nineteenth-Century New York
- 5. Chicago's Fraternity Temples: The Origins of Skyscraper Rhetoric and the First of the World's Tallest Office Buildings
- 6. The Corporate and the Civic: Metropolitan Life's Home Office Building
- 7. The Chicago Tribune Tower Competition: Publicity Imagines Community
- Part 3. Urban Contexts
- 8. The Heights and Depths of Urbanism: Fifth Avenue and the Creative Destruction of Manhattan
- 9. Built Languages of Class: Skyscrapers and Labor Protest in Victorian Public Space
- 10. The Skyscraper Ensemble in Its Urban Context: Rockefeller Center
- Part 4. Popular Culture
- 11. The Shadow of the Skyscraper: Urban Photography and Metropolitan Irrationalism in the Stieglitz Circle
- 12. The Skyscraper, Gender, and Mental Life: Sophie Treadwell's Play Machinal of 1928
- 13. The Sublime and the Skyline: The New York Skyscraper
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
