Chicago Skyscrapers, 1934-1986: How Technology, Politics, Finance, and Race Reshaped the City

From skyline-defining icons to wonders of the world, the second period of the Chicago skyscraper transformed the...
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Author: Thomas Leslie
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Chicago Skyscrapers, 1934-1986: How Technology, Politics, Finance, and Race Reshaped the City by Leslie, Thomas

Chicago Skyscrapers, 1934-1986: How Technology, Politics, Finance, and Race Reshaped the City

$101.80

Chicago Skyscrapers, 1934-1986: How Technology, Politics, Finance, and Race Reshaped the City

$101.80
Author: Thomas Leslie
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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.



Author: Thomas Leslie
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 06/20/2023
Pages: 354
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.95lbs
Size: 11.10h x 8.80w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780252044953

About the Author
Thomas Leslie is an architect, educator, and author. His books include Beauty's Rigor: Patterns of Production in the Work of Pier Luigi Nervi and Chicago Skyscrapers, 1871-1934.

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