Building the skyline the birth and growth of Manhattan’s skyscrapers 1st Edition by Jason Barr ISBN 0190912294 978-0190912291

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ISBN 10: 0190912294
ISBN 13: 978-0190912291
Author: Jason Barr 

The Manhattan skyline is one of the great wonders of the modern world. In Building the Skyline, Jason Barr chronicles the history of the Manhattan skyscrapers and provides insights into the economic forces that have created its distinctive and iconic panorama. Bedrock is Manhattan’s natural and geological history, which influenced early land use and the development of neighborhoods, including the dense tenement neighborhoods of Five Points and the Lower East Side. Barr sheds light on why skyscrapers emerged downtown and why they appeared three miles to the north in midtown–but not in between the two areas-and debunks myths that geology was the cause. Rather, the patterns of skyscraper construction reflected economic and demographic forces at the time, which in turn influenced subsequent developments. As the first rigorous investigation of innovative ways to accommodate as many people as possible on the same location, Building the Skyline is an important contribution to understanding the growth and life of cities.

Building the skyline : the birth and growth of Manhattan’s skyscrapers 1st  Table of contents:

Part I: Before the Skyscraper Revolution

1. Manhattan’s Natural History

2. Mannahatta to Manhattan: Settlement to Grid Plan

3. Land Use before the Civil War

4. The Tenements and the Skyline

Part II: The Rise of the Skyline

5. The Economics of Skyscraper Height

6. Measuring the Skyline

7. The Bedrock Myth

8. The Birth of Midtown

9. Edifice Complex? The Cause of the 1920s Building Boom

10. What Is Manhattan Worth? One Hundred Fifty Years of Land Values

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