| Description |
xvi, 478 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm |
| Contents |
Ch. 1. The Urban Context and the Office Building, 1850-70 -- Ch. 2. Technological Preparations -- Ch. 3. Toward the Skyscraper: Architectural and Technical Achievement in New York Before 1870 -- Ch. 4. The "First Skyscrapers": Innovation in the 1870s -- Ch. 5. The Future Revealed: Technical Developments and Formal Solutions in the 1880s -- Ch. 6. State of the Skyscraper Art, 1889 to the Mid-1890s -- Ch. 7. Monuments to Commercial Power and Corporate Prestige, 1889-95 -- Ch. 8. The Syndicate-Built Skyscraper, Technical Advances, Continuing Debate, 1895-1900 -- Ch. 9. Skyscrapers and the Urban Scene at the Turn of the Century -- Ch. 10. The Skyscraper Comes of Age, 1900-1910 -- Ch. 11. Culminating Works and Envoys of the Future |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Skyscrapers -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.
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| SUBJECT |
New York (N.Y.) -- Buildings, structures, etc.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008116320
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| Author |
Condit, Carl W.
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| LC no. |
95034061 |
| ISBN |
0300064446 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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0300077394 |
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