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Chicago Skyscrapers, 1934-1986
How Technology, Politics, Finance, and Race Reshaped the City
Buch von Thomas Leslie
Sprache: Englisch

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"The John Hancock Center. Marina City. Sandburg Village. The Sears Tower. The Inland Steel Building. From skyline-defining icons to wonders of the world, the second period of the Chicago skyscraper transformed the way Chicagoans lived and worked. The Second Chicago School dominates many histories of the era. Yet these accounts often overlook essential Chicago sites, important areas away from downtown, the teams of people involved in the conception and construction of skyscrapers, and the financial, social, racial, and political factors that influenced the buildings that came to be. Thomas Leslie's comprehensive look at the modern era of Chicago skyscrapers rewrites the narrative to view the skyscraper idea, and the buildings themselves, within the broad expanse of city history. As construction emerged from the depths of the Great Depression, structural, mechanical, and cladding innovations evolved while continuing to influence designs. An earlier generation of architects would have been impressed-but not shocked-by expansive glass elevations and more efficient concrete columns, girders, and slabs. The truly radical changes concerned the motivations that drove construction of many new skyscrapers. While profit remained key in the Loop, developers elsewhere 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"--
"The John Hancock Center. Marina City. Sandburg Village. The Sears Tower. The Inland Steel Building. From skyline-defining icons to wonders of the world, the second period of the Chicago skyscraper transformed the way Chicagoans lived and worked. The Second Chicago School dominates many histories of the era. Yet these accounts often overlook essential Chicago sites, important areas away from downtown, the teams of people involved in the conception and construction of skyscrapers, and the financial, social, racial, and political factors that influenced the buildings that came to be. Thomas Leslie's comprehensive look at the modern era of Chicago skyscrapers rewrites the narrative to view the skyscraper idea, and the buildings themselves, within the broad expanse of city history. As construction emerged from the depths of the Great Depression, structural, mechanical, and cladding innovations evolved while continuing to influence designs. An earlier generation of architects would have been impressed-but not shocked-by expansive glass elevations and more efficient concrete columns, girders, and slabs. The truly radical changes concerned the motivations that drove construction of many new skyscrapers. While profit remained key in the Loop, developers elsewhere 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"--
Über den Autor
Thomas Leslie
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1. The Second Skyscraper City

Chapter 2. Technical Developments in the 1930s-1940s

Chapter 3. Demographics and Housing

Chapter 4. Prudential, Inland Steel, and the Rebirth of the Loop

Chapter 5. Daley’s City: Commercial Construction, 1955-1972

Chapter 6. High Rise Housing in the 1960s

Chapter 7. Skyscraper Urbanism

Chapter 8. Tubes and the High-Rise as Structural Art

Chapter 9. After Sears

Coda: Mies, Morality, and the Myth of the “Second Chicago School”

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Genre: Importe, Kunst
Rubrik: Kunst & Musik
Thema: Architektur
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: Einband - fest (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780252044953
ISBN-10: 0252044959
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Leslie, Thomas
Hersteller: University of Illinois Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 282 x 224 x 28 mm
Von/Mit: Thomas Leslie
Erscheinungsdatum: 20.06.2023
Gewicht: 1,338 kg
Artikel-ID: 132542533
Über den Autor
Thomas Leslie
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1. The Second Skyscraper City

Chapter 2. Technical Developments in the 1930s-1940s

Chapter 3. Demographics and Housing

Chapter 4. Prudential, Inland Steel, and the Rebirth of the Loop

Chapter 5. Daley’s City: Commercial Construction, 1955-1972

Chapter 6. High Rise Housing in the 1960s

Chapter 7. Skyscraper Urbanism

Chapter 8. Tubes and the High-Rise as Structural Art

Chapter 9. After Sears

Coda: Mies, Morality, and the Myth of the “Second Chicago School”

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Genre: Importe, Kunst
Rubrik: Kunst & Musik
Thema: Architektur
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: Einband - fest (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780252044953
ISBN-10: 0252044959
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Leslie, Thomas
Hersteller: University of Illinois Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 282 x 224 x 28 mm
Von/Mit: Thomas Leslie
Erscheinungsdatum: 20.06.2023
Gewicht: 1,338 kg
Artikel-ID: 132542533
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