{"product_id":"chicago-skyscrapers-19341986-9780252044953","title":"Chicago Skyscrapers 19341986","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.newberry.org\/news\/the-pattis-family-foundation-and-the-newberry-library-announce-2024-chicago-book-award-recipient\"\u003eThe Pattis Family Foundation Chicago Book Award, by The Pattis Family Foundation and the Newberry Library\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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 ap\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An ambitious history that’s less the usual roundup of Loop landmarks than an architecture junkie’s dense wandering intriguingly away from downtown.\" --\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A magisterial account of our city's high-rise foundations.\" --\u003ci\u003eNewcity\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An impressive and important book that ranks with other works providing the deepest insights into what makes Chicago, Chicago. . . . \u003ci\u003eChicago Skyscrapers, 1934-1986\u003c\/i\u003e is one of those rare books about significant architectural structures that looks beyond design controversies, elegant descriptions, and engineering details and examines the forces behind their creation.\" --\u003ci\u003eThird Coast Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A worthy successor to the pathbreaking work of Carl Condit, this deeply researched volume explores the architectural design, structure and equipment of tall buildings in Chicago from the 1930s into the 1980s in their full and complex relationship to changing economic, social, and political realities in the city.”--Robert Bruegmann, author of \u003ci\u003eArt Deco Chicago: Designing Modern America\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface \u003cp\u003e Acknowledgments \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Chapter 1. The Second Skyscraper City \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Chapter 2. Technical Developments in the 1930s-1940s \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Chapter 3. Demographics and Housing \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Chapter 4. Prudential, Inland Steel, and the Rebirth of the Loop \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Chapter 5. Daley’s City: Commercial Construction, 1955-1972 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Chapter 6. High Rise Housing in the 1960s \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Chapter 7. Skyscraper Urbanism \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Chapter 8. Tubes and the High-Rise as Structural Art \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Chapter 9. After Sears \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Coda: Mies, Morality, and the Myth of the “Second Chicago School” \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Notes \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Bibliography \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Index \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400457953623,"sku":"9780252044953","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/chicago-skyscrapers-19341986-9780252044953","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}