Leslie, Thomas.

Chicago Skyscrapers, 1934-1986 : How Technology, Politics, Finance, and Race Reshaped the City. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (985 pages)

Intro -- Cover -- HalfTitle -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. The Second Skyscraper City -- Chapter 2. Technical Developments in the 1930s-1940s -- Chapter 3. Demographics and Housing -- Chapter 4. Prudential, Inland Steel, and the Rebirth of the Loop -- Chapter 5. Daley's City: Commercial Construction, 1955-1972 -- Chapter 6. High-Rise Housing in the 1960s -- Chapter 7. Skyscrapers as Civic Monuments -- Chapter 8. Tubes and the High Rise as Structural Art -- Chapter 9. After Sears -- Coda: Myth, Morality, and Mies -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

9780252054112


Architecture and society-Illinois-Chicago.
Skyscrapers-Illinois-Chicago.


Electronic books.

NA2543.S6 L475 2023

720.103