Building The Skyline: The Birth And Growth Of Manhattan'S Skyscrapers - 9780199344369

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

• | Author: Jason M. Barr
• | Publisher: Oxford University Press
• | Publication Date: Jun 09, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 457 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Architecture
• | ISBN-10: 0199344361
• | ISBN-13: 9780199344369