Skyscraper: The Politics and Power of Building New York City in the Twentieth Century by Benjamin FlowersRequirements: .PDF reader, 5 MBOverview: Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title Nowhere in the world is there a greater concentration of significant skyscrapers than in New York City. And though this iconographic American building style has […]
Skyscraper Cinema: Architecture and Gender in American Film by Merrill SchleierRequirements: .PDF reader, 7.7 MBOverview: Whether tall office buildings, high-rise apartments, or lofty hotels, skyscrapers have been stars in American cinema since the silent era. Cinema’s tall buildings have been variously represented as unbridled aspiration, dens of iniquity and eroticism, beacons of democracy, and well-oiled […]
How to Read Skyscrapers: A Crash Course in High-Rise Architecture by Edward Denison, Nick BeechRequirements: EPUB Reader 41 MBOverview: The ultimate field guide to the icon of modern architecture – the skyscraper – in a handy format small enough to fit in a back pocket while providing serious information.The scope of the book is deliberately […]
The Black Skyscraper: Architecture and the Perception of Race by Adrienne BrownRequirements: .ePUB reader, 16 MBOverview: 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 […]
Klondikes, Chipped Ham, & Skyscraper Cones: The Story of Isaly’s by Brian ButkoRequirements: .ePUB reader, 22 MBOverview: The Klondike bar is America’s favorite ice cream novelty. This book traces its history and the rise and fall of its creator company, Isaly’s Dairy, which evolved from one milk wagon to a dozen plants that supplied its […]