Building the skyline [electronic resource] : the birth and growth of Manhattan's skyscrapers / Jason M. Barr.
2016
HD1393.58.U6 B37 2016eb
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Building the skyline [electronic resource] : the birth and growth of Manhattan's skyscrapers / Jason M. Barr.
Author
Barr, Jason M., author.
ISBN
9780190231736 (electronic book)
Published
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xvii, 437 pages) : illustrations, maps
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10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199344369 doi
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HD1393.58.U6 B37 2016eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
333.77097471
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Manhattan's natural history
Mannahatta to Manhattan: settlement to grid plan
Land use before the Civil War
The tenements and the skyline
The economics of skyscraper height
Measuring the skyline
The bedrock myth
The birth of Midtown
Edifice complex? The cause of the 1920s building boom
What's Manhattan worth? 150 years of land values.
Mannahatta to Manhattan: settlement to grid plan
Land use before the Civil War
The tenements and the skyline
The economics of skyscraper height
Measuring the skyline
The bedrock myth
The birth of Midtown
Edifice complex? The cause of the 1920s building boom
What's Manhattan worth? 150 years of land values.