Building the skyline : the birth and growth of Manhattan's skyscrapers / Jason M. Barr.

By:

Barr, Jason M [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2016Description: xvii, 437 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780190912291 (paperback)

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Additional physical formats: Online version:: Building the skylineDDC classification:

333.77097471 BAR 23 013699

Contents:

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's Manhattan worth? 150 years of land values.

Summary: Jason Barr chronicles the economic history of the Manhattan skyline. Part I lays out the historical background that established Manhattan's real estate trajectory. Part II focuses specifically on the economic history of skyscrapers and the skyline, investigating the reasons for their heights, frequencies, locations, and shapes.

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Book	Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore	333.77097471 BAR 013699 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		013699

Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-424) and index.

Jason Barr chronicles the economic history of the Manhattan skyline. Part I lays out the historical background that established Manhattan's real estate trajectory. Part II focuses specifically on the economic history of skyscrapers and the skyline, investigating the reasons for their heights, frequencies, locations, and shapes.

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