
Building the Skyline
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Content
- Cover
- Building the Skyline
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I: Before the Skyscraper Revolution
- 1. Manhattan's Natural History
- 2. Mannahatta to Manhattan: Settlement to Grid Plan
- 3. Land Use before the Civil War
- 4. The Tenements and the Skyline
- Part II: The Rise of the Skyline
- 5. The Economics of Skyscraper Height
- 6. Measuring the Skyline
- 7. The Bedrock Myth
- 8. The Birth of Midtown
- 9. Edifice Complex? The Cause of the 1920s Building Boom
- 10. What Is Manhattan Worth? One Hundred Fifty Years of Land Values
- Epilogue: The Resilient Skyline?
- Appendices
- Notes
- Bibliographic Note
- Bibliography
- Index
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