Skyscraper : : The Politics and Power of Building New York City in the Twentieth Century / / Benjamin Flowers.
Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic TitleNowhere in the world is there a greater concentration of significant skyscrapers than in New York City. And though this iconographic American building style has roots in Chicago, New York is where it has grown into such a powerful reflectio...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2012] ©2010 |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (240 p.) :; 51 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION. Narratives of the Built Environment: Architecture, Ideology, and Skyscrapers
- PART I. The Empire State Building: The Setback Skyscraper, the Great Depression, and American Modernism
- 1. Building, Money, and Power
- 2. Setback Skyscrapers and American Architectural Development
- 3. Capital Nightmares
- 4. The Politics of American Architecture in the 1930s
- PART II. The Seagram Building: The Ascension of the International Style and a Somber Monument to Corporate Authority
- 5. Architecture Culture into the 1950s
- 6. Clients and Architect
- 7. Gangland's Grip on Business
- 8. Modern Architecture and Corporate America in the 1950s
- PART III. The World Trade Center: Urban Renewal, Global Capitalism, and Regeneration Through Violence
- 9. Regeneration Through Violence
- 10. The Rhetoric and Reality of Urban Renewal
- 11. Cathedrals of Commerce: Minoru Yamasaki, Skyscraper Design, and the Rise of Postmodernism
- CONCLUSION. Into the Future
- EPILOGUE
- NOTES
- INDEX
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS