Main entry:

Brown, Christopher, 1953 September 2- author. aut

Title & Author:

Still standing : a century of urban train station design / Christopher Brown.

Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2005.

Description:

ix, 133 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm.

Series:

Railroads past and present

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (page 129) and index.
The visual survey -- Amiens Street Station (Connolly Station), Dublin -- Kingsbridge Station (Heuston Station), Dublin -- Gare de Strasbourg (Gare de l'Est), Paris -- Paddington Station, London -- Gare du Nord, Paris -- St. Pancras Station, London -- Liverpool Street Station, London -- Central Station, Glasgow -- Queen Street Station, Glasgow -- Polk Street Depot (Dearborn Street Station), Chicago -- Centralbahnhof (Hauptbahnhof), Frankfurt-am-Main -- Musir Hamdi Pasa (Sirkeci Station), Istanbul -- Union Station, St. Louis -- Union Station (Pennsylvania Station), Pittsburgh -- Broad Street Station, Newark -- Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio Station (Southern Pacific Depot), San Antonio -- Bush Shed, Hoboken -- Union Station, Washington, D.C. -- Lackawanna Terminal, Hoboken -- Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Station (Lackawanna Station), Scranton -- Franz Josef Nadrazi (Hlavni Nadrazi), Prague -- Hovedbannegård, Copenhagen -- Union Station (Pennsylvania Station), Baltimore -- Grand Central Terminal, New York City -- Vancouver Station, Vancouver -- Union Depot (Santa Fe Depot), San Diego -- Estación Retiro, Buenos Aires -- Rautatieasema, Helsinki -- Union Station (Broad Street Station), Richmond -- Jacksonville Union Terminal, Jacksonville -- Union Station, Toronto -- Union Station, Chicago -- Hauptbahnhof, Stuttgart -- Railway Station, Auckland -- Pennsylvania Station (Thirtieth Street Station), Philadelphia -- Cincinnati Union Terminal, Cincinnati -- Pennsylvania Station, Newark -- Stazione di Santa Maria Novella, Florence -- Union Passenger Terminal (Union Station), Los Angeles -- Stazione Termini, Rome.

Summary:

"This photographic survey of urban train station design covers a one hundred-year period from roughly 1850 to 1950. Original photographs chronicle forty large passenger station buildings still in existence in cities around the world. From the great terminals of London, across the world to Auckland, New Zealand; from Toronto's Union Station to the grand and crumbling Retiro Station in Buenos Aires - vastly different architectural forms are displayed and presented chronologically. One-third of the stations included are among the best America has to offer."
"Still Standing: A Century of Urban Train Station Design outlines the history and development of large urban stations throughout the Western world. The basic physical forms and their evolution are reviewed in the context of the rapid growth of train travel. Christopher Brown discusses the arrival and impact of Beaux-Arts architecture in the 1890s and its profound effect on the American terminal."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents

ISBN:

0253346347 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780253346346 (cloth ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Railroad stations.
Architecture, Modern 19th century.
Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Railroad stations Designs and plans.
Railroad stations History.
Architecture 19e siècle.
Architecture 20e siècle.
Gares Dessins et plans.
Gares Histoire.
Gares.
railroad stations.
Architecture, Modern
Bahnhofsarchitektur
Stadt

Form/genre:

History
Architectural drawings

Added entries:

Railroads past and present.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 242575
Call No.: BIB 172379
Status: Available