Building the skyline : the birth and growth of Manhattan's skyscrapers /
Barr, Jason M.author.
Includes bibliography (pages 403-424) and index.
Manhattan's natural history -- Mannahatta to Manhattan: settlement to grid plan -- Land use before the Civil War -- The tenements and the skyline -- The economics of skyscraper height -- Measuring the skyline -- The bedrock myth -- The birth of Midtown -- Edifice complex? The cause of the 1920s building boom -- What is Manhattan worth? One hundred fifty years of land values.
Skyscrapers
Land use, Urban
Real estate development
Building the skyline