Rise of the New York skyscraper, 1865-1913 /
This authoritative book chronicles the history of New York's first skyscrapers, challenging conventional wisdom that it was in Chicago and not in New York that the skyscraper was born. Two experts - an architectural historian and a historian of technology - draw on rich and diverse contemporary...
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
1996.
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Table of 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.