Chicago 1890
Subtitle: the skyscraper and the modern city
By: Joanna Merwood-Salisbury.
Series: Chicago architecture and urbanism
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780226520780
Subjects: Skyscrapers -- Illinois -- Chicago; Architecture and society -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 19th century; Chicago (Ill.) -- Buildings, structures, etc
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Western architecture: the skyscraper as regional type; title: Louis Sullivan's democratic architecture and the labor movement; title: Monadnock: John W. Root and the art of pure color; title: Masonic Temple: the double life of a civic skyscraper; title: Reliance Building: urban sanitation and skyscraper reform; title: Chicago 1900: the city beautiful and the decline of the skyscraper as an urban solution; title: Postscript: "the architectonic anticipation of the future".