Title & Author:

The American skyscraper : cultural histories / edited by Roberta Moudry.

Publication:

New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Description:

xvi, 281 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-274) and index.
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.

Summary:

"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."--Jacket.

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ISBN:

0521624215
9780521624213

Subject:

Metropolitan Museum of Art
Skyscrapers United States.
Skyscrapers New York (State) New York.
Skyscrapers Illinois Chicago.
Gratte-ciel États-Unis.
Gratte-ciel New York (État) New York.
Gratte-ciel Illinois Chicago.
Skyscrapers.
Hochhaus
Illinois Chicago.
New York (State) New York.
United States.
Chicago, Ill.
USA
New York (N.Y.)

Added entries:

Moudry, Roberta.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 240869
Call No.: NA6232 .A44 2005
Status: Available