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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

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Building the Skyline
  • Author : Jason M. Barr
  • Release : 29 April 2024
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • ISBN : 9780199344369
  • Genre : Architecture
  • Total Page : 457 pages
  • Language : English
  • PDF File Size : 10,6 Mb

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