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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...
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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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| 240 | 1 | 0 | |a Geschichte des Fahrstuhls. |l English |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Lifted : |b A Cultural History of the Elevator / |c Andreas Bernard ; translated from German by David Dollenmayer. |
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| 505 | 0 | |a Cover; CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; The History of Technology: New York, 1854; Inventing the Multistory Building; Accidents; 1 THE BREACH THROUGH THE BUILDING: ORGANIZING THE VERTICAL; A Theory of the Elevator Shaft; Architectures of Linearity; The Void between Floors; 2 FROM ATTIC TO PENTHOUSE: THE VERTICAL HIERARCHY OF BUILDINGS; Grand Hotels; Garret Rooms, 1839: Poor Poets and Eloping Couples; The Hygienists' Battle against the Tenement House; The Semantics of the Attic around the Fin de Siecle; Penthouses, Roof Gardens, and the Executive Suite; 3 CONTROLS. | |
| 505 | 0 | |a The Elevator Operator at the Turn of the CenturyPush-Button Controls and the Path to Self-Operated Elevators; A Brief Psychology of the Push Button; 4 INTERIORS; The Stairwell; The Assimilation of the Elevator Cab; Urbanization and Spatial Fear: The Cab and Claustrophobia; The Politics of the Elevator; The Elevator in Literature, Film, and Advertising; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; ABOUT THE TRANSLATOR. | |
| 520 | |a 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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| 650 | 7 | |a SOCIAL SCIENCE |x Popular Culture. |2 bisacsh | |
| 650 | 7 | |a SOCIAL SCIENCE |x Anthropology |x Cultural. |2 bisacsh | |
| 650 | 7 | |a POLITICAL SCIENCE |x Public Policy |x Cultural Policy. |2 bisacsh | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Ascenseurs et monte-charge |x Histoire. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Ascenseurs et monte-charge |x Aspect social |x Histoire. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Elevators |x History. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Elevators |x Social aspects |x History. | |
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