Up down across
Subtitle: elevators, escalators, and moving sidewalks
By: edited by Alisa Goetz
Contributors: National Building Museum (U.S.)
Publisher: National Building Museum; Merrell
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Washington, D.C; London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9781858942131; 9781858942148
Subjects: Elevators; Escalators; Passenger conveyors; Modern Architecture
Notes: Published on the occasion of the exhibition at the National building Museum, September 12, 2003-April 18, 2004.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [214-218]) and index.

Also issued online.
Table of contents: title: Visual prelude; title: Preface: vertical, horizontal, diagonal / Dr. Henry Petroski; title: 1. Turning point: conveyance and the Paris Exposition of 1900 / Alisa Goetz; title: 2. Designing non-space: the evolution of the elevator interior / Peter A. Hall; title: 3. A matter of perception: escalators, moving sidewalks, and the motion of society / John King; title: 4. Hovering vision / Phil Patton; title: 5. Conveyance "germs": elevators, automated vehicles, and the shape of global cities / Keller Easterling; title: 6. Perspectives on the escalator in photography and art / Julie Wosk; title: 7. Elevator stories: vertical imagination and the spaces of possibility / Susan Garfinkel.