Chicago 1890
The Skyscraper and the Modern City
Cloth $45.00
ISBN: 9780226520780
Published July 2009
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1 Western Architecture
The Skyscraper as Regional Type
Chapter 2 Louis Sullivan’s Democratic
Architecture and the Labor Movement
Chapter 3 The Monadnock
John Wellborn Root and the Art of Pure Color
Chapter 4 The Masonic Temple
The Double Life of a Civic Skyscraper
Chapter 5 The Reliance Building
Urban Sanitation and Skyscraper Reform
Chapter 6 Chicago 1900
The City Beautiful Movement and the Decline of the Skyscraper
Postscript “The Architectonic Anticipation of the Future”
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
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