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With the development of the first skyscrapers in the 1880s, urban built environments could expand vertically as well as horizontally. Tall buildings emerged in growing cities to house and manage the large and racially diverse populations of migrants and immigrants flocking to their centers following Reconstruction. Beginning with Chicago's early 10-story towers and(...)
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With the development of the first skyscrapers in the 1880s, urban built environments could expand vertically as well as horizontally. Tall buildings emerged in growing cities to house and manage the large and racially diverse populations of migrants and immigrants flocking to their centers following Reconstruction. Beginning with Chicago's early 10-story towers and(...)
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Black skyscraper: architecture and the perception of race
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With the development of the first skyscrapers in the 1880s, urban built environments could expand vertically as well as horizontally. Tall buildings emerged in growing cities to house and manage the large and racially diverse populations of migrants and immigrants flocking to their centers following Reconstruction. Beginning with Chicago's early 10-story towers and concluding with the 1931 erection of the 102-story Empire State Building, Adrienne Brown's ''The Black Skyscraper'' provides a detailed account of how scale and proximity shape our understanding of race. Over the next half-century, as city skylines grew, American writers imagined the new urban backdrop as an obstacle to racial differentiation. Examining works produced by writers, painters, architects, and laborers who grappled with the early skyscraper's outsized and disorienting dimensions, Brown explores this architecture's effects on how race was seen, read, and sensed at the turn of the twentieth century.
Black skyscraper: architecture and the perception of race
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With the development of the first skyscrapers in the 1880s, urban built environments could expand vertically as well as horizontally. Tall buildings emerged in growing cities to house and manage the large and racially diverse populations of migrants and immigrants flocking to their centers following Reconstruction. Beginning with Chicago's early 10-story towers and concluding with the 1931 erection of the 102-story Empire State Building, Adrienne Brown's ''The Black Skyscraper'' provides a detailed account of how scale and proximity shape our understanding of race. Over the next half-century, as city skylines grew, American writers imagined the new urban backdrop as an obstacle to racial differentiation. Examining works produced by writers, painters, architects, and laborers who grappled with the early skyscraper's outsized and disorienting dimensions, Brown explores this architecture's effects on how race was seen, read, and sensed at the turn of the twentieth century.
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May 2019
May 2019
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Humans and cities
Humans and cities
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515 pages illustrations (some color) maps, diagrams 26 cm
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515 pages illustrations (some color) maps, diagrams 26 cm
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[Hong Kong] Hong Kong University Press; [New York], [Oxford University Press, exclusive agents] 1962 [i.e. 1963]
[Hong Kong] Hong Kong University Press; [New York], [Oxford University Press, exclusive agents] 1962 [i.e. 1963]
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Proceedings of a meeting held in September 1961 as part of the Golden Jubilee Congress of the University of Hong Kong.
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515 pages illustrations (some color) maps, diagrams 26 cm
Proceedings of a meeting held in September 1961 as part of the Golden Jubilee Congress of the University of Hong Kong.
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515 pages illustrations (some color) maps, diagrams 26 cm
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[Hong Kong] Hong Kong University Press; [New York], [Oxford University Press, exclusive agents] 1962 [i.e. 1963]
[Hong Kong] Hong Kong University Press; [New York], [Oxford University Press, exclusive agents] 1962 [i.e. 1963]
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596 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color map ; 25 cm
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596 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color map ; 25 cm
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New York : Abrams, 2006.
New York : Abrams, 2006.
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Worldchanging : a user's guide for the 21st century / edited by Alex Steffen ; foreword by Al Gore ; design by Sagmeister Inc.
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596 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color map ; 25 cm
Worldchanging : a user's guide for the 21st century / edited by Alex Steffen ; foreword by Al Gore ; design by Sagmeister Inc.
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New York : Abrams, 2006.
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206 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans ; 28 cm.
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206 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans ; 28 cm.
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[Paris] : Hermann, |2020]
[Paris] : Hermann, |2020]
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High-rise buildings in France : a modern heritage, 1945-1975 / director of publication, Richard Klein ; [published by] Docomomo France.
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206 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans ; 28 cm.
High-rise buildings in France : a modern heritage, 1945-1975 / director of publication, Richard Klein ; [published by] Docomomo France.
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206 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans ; 28 cm.
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[Paris] : Hermann, |2020]
[Paris] : Hermann, |2020]
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"Skyscraper Rivals" is the first book to examine the architecture of Wall Street between the wars through an array contemporary and archival images and an informed discussion of the financial, geographical, and historical forces that shaped this district. The book (...)
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"Skyscraper Rivals" is the first book to examine the architecture of Wall Street between the wars through an array contemporary and archival images and an informed discussion of the financial, geographical, and historical forces that shaped this district. The book (...)
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Skyscraper rivals : the AIG building and the architecture of Wall Street
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"Skyscraper Rivals" is the first book to examine the architecture of Wall Street between the wars through an array contemporary and archival images and an informed discussion of the financial, geographical, and historical forces that shaped this district. The book focuses on the AIG Building--once known as the Cities Service Building--and three other major towers in the financial district, in their race to be the tallest, the most modern, and the most lavish. We meet the tycoons who paid for these structures, the architects who designed them, the workers who laboured in them, and the artists and photographers who portrayed them. The economics of skyscraper construction and the real-estate market of Wall Street are explained; also included are illuminating details and anecdotes surrounding each building's history.
Skyscraper rivals : the AIG building and the architecture of Wall Street
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"Skyscraper Rivals" is the first book to examine the architecture of Wall Street between the wars through an array contemporary and archival images and an informed discussion of the financial, geographical, and historical forces that shaped this district. The book focuses on the AIG Building--once known as the Cities Service Building--and three other major towers in the financial district, in their race to be the tallest, the most modern, and the most lavish. We meet the tycoons who paid for these structures, the architects who designed them, the workers who laboured in them, and the artists and photographers who portrayed them. The economics of skyscraper construction and the real-estate market of Wall Street are explained; also included are illuminating details and anecdotes surrounding each building's history.
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December 2000, New York
December 2000, New York
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Gratte-ciels
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437 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm
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437 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm
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Paris : Pavillon de l'Arsenal : Picard, [2009]
Paris : Pavillon de l'Arsenal : Picard, [2009]
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L'invention de la tour européenne = The invention of the European tower / sous la direction d'Ingrid Taillandier et Olivier Namias, avec Jean-François Pousse.
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437 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm
L'invention de la tour européenne = The invention of the European tower / sous la direction d'Ingrid Taillandier et Olivier Namias, avec Jean-François Pousse.
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437 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm
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Paris : Pavillon de l'Arsenal : Picard, [2009]
Paris : Pavillon de l'Arsenal : Picard, [2009]
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Trump World Tower
Trump World Tower
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1 model : metal ; 13 x 4 x 3 cm
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1 model : metal ; 13 x 4 x 3 cm
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[between 2001 and 2009]
[between 2001 and 2009]
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[between 2001 and 2009]
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Boomtown!®
Boomtown!®
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1 set (17 pieces) : plastic, color, metal ; various sizes in cardboard box 28 x 38 x 9 cm + 1 instruction sheet (21 x 30 cm folded to 21 x 15 cm) + 1 label sheet (31 x 23 cm)
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1 set (17 pieces) : plastic, color, metal ; various sizes in cardboard box 28 x 38 x 9 cm + 1 instruction sheet (21 x 30 cm folded to 21 x 15 cm) + 1 label sheet (31 x 23 cm)
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South San Francisco, Calif. : Galoob Toys, Inc., ©1997 (China)
South San Francisco, Calif. : Galoob Toys, Inc., ©1997 (China)
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Boomtown!®
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1 set (17 pieces) : plastic, color, metal ; various sizes in cardboard box 28 x 38 x 9 cm + 1 instruction sheet (21 x 30 cm folded to 21 x 15 cm) + 1 label sheet (31 x 23 cm)
Boomtown!®
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1 set (17 pieces) : plastic, color, metal ; various sizes in cardboard box 28 x 38 x 9 cm + 1 instruction sheet (21 x 30 cm folded to 21 x 15 cm) + 1 label sheet (31 x 23 cm)
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South San Francisco, Calif. : Galoob Toys, Inc., ©1997 (China)
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1 model : pewter ; 13 x 7 x 7 cm
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[Marlborough, MA] : [Dupliform Casting Co.], [between 1990 and 1999?]
[Marlborough, MA] : [Dupliform Casting Co.], [between 1990 and 1999?]
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John Hancock Building, Boston, MA.
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1 model : pewter ; 13 x 7 x 7 cm
John Hancock Building, Boston, MA.
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[Marlborough, MA] : [Dupliform Casting Co.], [between 1990 and 1999?]
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172 pages ; 21 cm
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Stuttgart : IRB Verlag, 1987
Stuttgart : IRB Verlag, 1987
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Hochhausfassaden / redaktionelle Bearbeitung: Folker Frank
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172 pages ; 21 cm
Hochhausfassaden / redaktionelle Bearbeitung: Folker Frank
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Stuttgart : IRB Verlag, 1987
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