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Chicago Skyscrapers, 1934-1986 : How Technology, Politics, Finance, and Race Reshaped the City.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Champaign : University of Illinois Press, 2023Copyright date: ©2023Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (985 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780252054112
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Chicago Skyscrapers, 1934-1986DDC classification:
  • 720.103
LOC classification:
  • NA2543.S6 L475 2023
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
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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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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