Chicago skyscrapers, 1934-1986 : how technology, politics, finance, and race reshaped the city /
"The John Hancock Center. Marina City. Sandburg Village. The Sears Tower. The Inland Steel Building. From skyline-defining icons to wonders of the world, the second period of the Chicago skyscraper transformed the way Chicagoans lived and worked. The Second Chicago School dominates many histori...
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
[2023]
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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- The second skyscraper city
- Technical developments in the 1930s-1940s
- Demographics and housing
- Prudential, Inland Steel, and the rebirth of the Loop
- Daley's city: commercial construction, 1955-1972
- High-rise housing in the 1960s
- Skyscrapers as civic monuments
- Tubes and the high rise as structural art
- After Sears
- Coda: Myth, morality, and Mies.