TY  - BOOK
AU  - Landau,Sarah Bradford
AU  - Condit,Carl W.
TI  - Rise of the New York skyscraper, 1865-1913
SN  - 0300064446
AV  - NA6232. L36 1996
U1  - 720.483097471 
PY  - 1996///
CY  - New Haven
PB  - Yale University Press
KW  - Skyscrapers
KW  - New York (State)
KW  - New York
KW  - History
KW  - New York (N.Y.)
KW  - Buildings, structures, etc
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Preface --; Ch. 1; The Urban Context and the Office Building, 1850-70 --; Ch. 2; Technological Preparations --; Ch. 3; Toward the Skyscraper: Architectural and Technical Achievement in New York Before 1870 --; Ch. 4; The "First Skyscrapers": Innovation in the 1870s --; Ch. 5; The Future Revealed: Technical Developments and Formal Solutions in the 1880s --; Ch. 6; State of the Skyscraper Art, 1889 to the Mid-1890s --; Ch. 7; Monuments to Commercial Power and Corporate Prestige, 1889-95 --; Ch. 8; The Syndicate-Built Skyscraper, Technical Advances, Continuing Debate, 1895-1900 --; Ch. 9; Skyscrapers and the Urban Scene at the Turn of the Century --; Ch. 10; The Skyscraper Comes of Age, 1900-1910 --; Ch. 11; Culminating Works and Envoys of the Future --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index
ER  -