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Building the skyline : the birth and growth of Manhattan's skyscrapers / Jason M. Barr.
LIBRA HD1393.58.U6 B37 2016
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Barr, Jason M., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Skyscrapers--Economic aspects--New York (State)--New York--History.
- Skyscrapers.
- Land use, Urban--New York (State)--New York--History.
- Land use, Urban.
- Real estate development--New York (State)--New York--History.
- Real estate development.
- History.
- Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)--History.
- Manhattan (New York, N.Y.).
- New York (State)--New York.
- New York (State).
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 437 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2016]
- Contents:
- Manhattan's natural history
- Mannahatta to Manhattan: settlement to grid plan
- Land use before the Civil War
- The tenements and the skyline
- The economics of skyscraper height
- Measuring the skyline
- The bedrock myth
- The birth of Midtown
- Edifice complex? The cause of the 1920s building boom
- What's Manhattan worth? 150 years of land values.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Barr, Jason M., author. Building the skyline
- ISBN:
- 9780199344369
- 0199344361
- OCLC:
- 938990076
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