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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Opis bibliograficzny
1. autor: Leslie, Thomas, 1967- (Autor)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Język:angielski
Wydane: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2023]
Dostęp online:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=3582961
Spis treści:
  • 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.