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Lifted : a cultural history of the elevator /
Before skyscrapers forever transformed the landscape of the modern metropolis, the conveyance that made them possible had to be created. Invented in New York in the 1850s, the elevator became an urban fact of life on both sides of the Atlantic by the early twentieth century. While it may at first gl...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Alemán |
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New York :
New York University Press,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Before skyscrapers forever transformed the landscape of the modern metropolis, the conveyance that made them possible had to be created. Invented in New York in the 1850s, the elevator became an urban fact of life on both sides of the Atlantic by the early twentieth century. While it may at first glance seem a modest innovation, it had wide-ranging effects, from fundamentally restructuring building design to reinforcing social class hierarchies by moving luxury apartments to upper levels, previously the domain of the lower classes. The cramped elevator cabin itself served as a reflection of li. |
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| Notas: | "Originally published as Die Geschichte des Fahrstuhls : über einen beweglichen Ort der Moderne, 2006 Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag in der S. Fischer Verlag GmbH, Frankfurt am Main"--Title page verso. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781479880423 1479880426 1479873489 9781479873487 |