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Chicago 1890 : the skyscraper and the modern city / Joanna Merwood-Salisbury.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Merwood-Salisbury, Joanna.
- Series:
- Chicago architecture and urbanism
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Skyscrapers--Illinois--Chicago.
- Skyscrapers.
- Architecture and society--Illinois--Chicago--History--19th century.
- Architecture and society.
- History.
- Chicago (Ill.)--Buildings, structures, etc.
- Chicago (Ill.).
- Illinois--Chicago.
- Physical Description:
- x, 196 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009.
- 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".
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780226520780
- 0226520781
- OCLC:
- 232656339
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