Building the skyline
Subtitle: the birth and growth of Manhattan's skyscrapers
By: Jason M. Barr
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 437
ISBN-13: 9780199344369
Subjects: Urban Land use; Real estate development; Skyscrapers; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-424) and index.
Table of contents: title: Manhattan's natural history; title: Mannahatta to Manhattan: settlement to grid plan; title: Land use before the Civil War; title: The tenements and the skyline; title: The economics of skyscraper height; title: Measuring the skyline; title: The bedrock myth; title: The birth of Midtown; title: Edifice complex? The cause of the 1920s building boom; title: What's Manhattan worth? 150 years of land values.