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Chicago 1890 : the skyscraper and the modern city
- Title
- Chicago 1890 : the skyscraper and the modern city / Joanna Merwood-Salisbury.
- Author
- Merwood-Salisbury, Joanna.
- Publication
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009.
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Details
- Description
- x, 196 p. : ill., maps; 29 cm.
- Series Statement
- Chicago architecture and urbanism
- Uniform Title
- Chicago architecture and urbanism.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Western architecture : the tall office building as regional type -- Louis Sullivan's democratic architecture and the labor movement -- The Monadnock : John Wellborn Root and the art of pure color -- The Masonic Temple : the double life of a civic skyscraper -- The Reliance Building : urban sanitation and skyscraper reform -- Chicago 1900 : the city beautiful movement and the decline of the skyscraper -- Postscript: "the architectonic anticipation of the future".
- Call Number
- JQF 09-1881
- ISBN
- 9780226520780 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 0226520781 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2008026986
- OCLC
- 232656339
- Author
- Merwood-Salisbury, Joanna.
- Title
- Chicago 1890 : the skyscraper and the modern city / Joanna Merwood-Salisbury.
- Imprint
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009.
- Series
- Chicago architecture and urbanismChicago architecture and urbanism.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JQF 09-1881