Landau, Sarah Bradford,  1935- <br/><br/>
Rise of the New York skyscraper, 1865-1913 / 
 Rise of the New York skyscraper, eighteen sixty five-nineteen thirteen  Rise of the New York skyscraper, 1865 to 1913 
Sarah Bradford Landau & Carl W. Condit. 
 - xvi, 478 pages :  illustrations ;  29 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> Preface --  The Urban Context and the Office Building, 1850-70 --  Technological Preparations --  Toward the Skyscraper: Architectural and Technical Achievement in New York Before 1870 --  The "First Skyscrapers": Innovation in the 1870s --  The Future Revealed: Technical Developments and Formal Solutions in the 1880s --  State of the Skyscraper Art, 1889 to the Mid-1890s --  Monuments to Commercial Power and Corporate Prestige, 1889-95 --  The Syndicate-Built Skyscraper, Technical Advances, Continuing Debate, 1895-1900 --  Skyscrapers and the Urban Scene at the Turn of the Century --  The Skyscraper Comes of Age, 1900-1910 --  Culminating Works and Envoys of the Future --  Notes --  Bibliography --  Index.  Ch. 1.  Ch. 2.  Ch. 3.  Ch. 4.  Ch. 5.  Ch. 6.  Ch. 7.  Ch. 8.  Ch. 9.  Ch. 10.  Ch. 11. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0300064446 9780300064445 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>95034061 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Skyscrapers--History--New York (State)--New York
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>New York (N.Y.)--Buildings, structures, etc.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>NA6232.  / L36 1996 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>720.483097471