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Chicago Skyscrapers, 1934-1986 - How Technology, Politics, Finance, and Race Reshaped the City (Hardcover)
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Chicago Skyscrapers, 1934-1986 - How Technology, Politics, Finance, and Race Reshaped the City (Hardcover)
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From skyline-defining icons to wonders of the world, the second
period of the Chicago skyscraper transformed the way Chicagoans
lived and worked. Thomas Leslie’s comprehensive look at the
modern skyscraper era views the skyscraper idea, and the buildings
themselves, within the broad expanse of city history. As
construction emerged from the Great Depression, structural,
mechanical, and cladding innovations evolved while continuing to
influence designs. But the truly radical changes concerned the
motivations that drove construction. While profit remained key in
the Loop, developers elsewhere in Chicago worked with a Daley
political regime that saw tall buildings as tools for a wholesale
recasting of the city’s appearance, demography, and economy.
Focusing on both the wider cityscape and specific buildings, Leslie
reveals skyscrapers to be the physical results of negotiations
between motivating and mechanical causes. Illustrated with more
than 140 photographs, Chicago Skyscrapers, 1934–1986 tells the
fascinating stories of the people, ideas, negotiations,
decision-making, compromises, and strategies that changed the
history of architecture and one of its showcase cities.
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