
Alone Together
A History of New York's Early Apartments
Elizabeth Collins Cromley(Author)
Cornell University Press
Published on 6. March 1990
Book
Hardback
272 pages
978-0-8014-2324-6 (ISBN)
Description
Twentieth-century New York is now famous as the city of "cliff dwellers," but in the second half of the nineteenth century, middle-class apartments in Manhattan were a new-and somewhat suspect-architectural form. Alone Together presents a history of the "invention" of New York apartment houses.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Ithaca
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paper over boards
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 178 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
907 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8014-2324-6 (9780801423246)
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Person
Elizabeth Collins Cromley is Professor of Architectural History at Northeastern University and the coauthor of Invitation to Vernacular Architecture.