Chicago 1890 : the skyscraper and the modern city / Joanna Merwood-Salisbury.

Main entry:

Merwood-Salisbury, Joanna.

Title & Author:

Chicago 1890 : the skyscraper and the modern city / Joanna Merwood-Salisbury.

Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009.

Description:

x, 196 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm.

Series:

Chicago architecture and urbanism

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-190) and index.
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."

Summary:

"Chicago's first skyscrapers, constructed in the 1880s and '90s, are famous for projecting the image of the modern city around the world. But what did they mean at home, to the Chicagoans who designed and built them, worked inside their walls, and gazed up at their facades? Answering this multifaceted question, this book reveals that early skyscrapers offered hotly debated solutions to the city's toughest problems and, in the process, fostered an urban culture that spread across the country."--[book jacket].

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ISBN:

9780226520780 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0226520781 (hardcover ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Skyscrapers Illinois Chicago.
Architecture and society Illinois Chicago History 19th century.
Gratte-ciel Illinois Chicago.
Architecture et société Illinois Chicago Histoire 19e siècle.
Architecture and society.
Buildings.
Skyscrapers.
Hochhaus
Städtebau.
Arkitektur historia Förenta staterna Chicago 1890-talet.
Skyskrapor historia Chicago.
Chicago (Ill.) Buildings, structures, etc.
Chicago (Ill.) Constructions.
Illinois Chicago.
Chicago, Ill.
Chicago Architektur Geschichte 19. Jh.
Chicago.
Chicago byggnader historia 1890-talet.
Chicago architettura sec. 19. (fine)-20. (inizio)

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Chicago architecture and urbanism.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 262800
Call No.: BIB 193930
Status: Available

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