Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-274) and index.
Contents:
The sublime and the skyline : the New York skyscraper / David E. Nye. 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.
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