The black skyscraper : architecture and the perception of race /

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With the development of the first skyscrapers in the 1880s, urban built environments could expand vertically as well as horizontally. Tall buildings emerged in growing cities to house and manage the large and racially diverse populations of migrants and immigrants flocking to their centers following...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Brown, Adrienne R., 1983- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017.
Temas:
Architecture and race > United States.
Skyscrapers > Social aspects > United States.
Architecture et race > États-Unis.
Gratte-ciel > Aspect social > États-Unis.
ARCHITECTURE > Adaptive Reuse & Renovation.
ARCHITECTURE > Buildings > Landmarks & Monuments.
ARCHITECTURE > Professional Practice.
ARCHITECTURE > Reference.
Architecture and race
Skyscrapers > Social aspects
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction- race in three dimensions
  • Architecture and the visual fate of whiteness
  • The miscegenated skyscraper and passing metropolitans
  • The black skyscraper
  • Feeling white in the darkening city
  • Epilogue: from skyscrapers to suburbs.

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