Download Full eBooks in PDF
Chicago S North Michigan Avenue Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of Chicago S North Michigan Avenue book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.
Author : John W. Stamper
Publisher : Pomegranate
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0764933825
Author : John W. Stamper
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1991-08-27
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0226770850
Since its opening in the 1920s, Chicago's North Michigan Avenue has been one of the city's most prestigious commerical corridors, lined by some of its most architecturally distinctive business, residential, and hotel buildings. Planned by Daniel Burnham in 1909, the avenue became the principal connecting link between downtown and the wealthy, residential "Gold Coast" north of the Loop. Some thirty buildings were constructed along its path in the ten-year period before the Depression, an urban expansion comparable in significance to that of Pennsylvania and Park Avenues. John W. Stamper traces the complex development of North Michigan Avenue from the 1880s to the 1920s building boom that solidified its character and economic base, describing the initiation of the planning process by private interests to its execution aided by the city's powerful condemnation and taxation proceedings. He focuses on individual buildings constructed on the avenue, including the Renaissance- and Gothic-inspired Wrigley Building, Tribune Tower, and Drake Hotel, and places them within the context of factors governing their construction—property ownership, financing, zoning laws, design theory, and advertising. Stamper compares this stylistically diverse mixture of low- and high-rise structures with earlier, rejected planning proposals, all of which had prescribed a uniformly designed, European-like avenue of continuous cornice heights, consistent facade widths, and complementary stylistic features. He analyzes the drastically different character the avenue took by 1930, with high-rise towers reaching thirty stories and beyond, in terms of the clash among economic, political, and architectural interests. His argument—that the discrepancies between the rejected plans and reality illustrate the developers' choice of economic return on their investment over aesthetic community—is extended through to the present avenue and the virtual disregard of the urban qualities proposed at its inception. Generously illustrated, with an epilogue condensing the avenue's history between the end of World War II and the present, this is an exhaustive account of an important topic in the history of modern architecture and city planning.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1792 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1931
Category : Corporations
ISBN : UIUC:30112085193610
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1945
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105045293953
Author : United States. Federal Housing Administration
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1936
Category : Mortgage banks
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CU04250923
Author : United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Small Business
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Petroleum industry and trade
ISBN : SRLF:A0000430298
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Post Roads
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1926
Category : Envelopes (Stationery)
ISBN : LOC:00117924932
Author : United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Small Business
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1976 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015074735401
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 852 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Historic buildings
ISBN : UCBK:C022382342
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Small Business. Subcommittee on Monopoly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Antitrust law
ISBN : LOC:00186003408
Author : United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Small Business
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015079585322
Author : United States. Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105133464326
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Subcommittee on Communications and Power
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Educational radio stations
ISBN : LOC:00183870683
Author : Keith M. Stolte
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 9781467143226
For more than a century, Chicago's leading painters, sculptors, writers, actors, dancers and architects congregated together in close-knit artistic enclaves. After the Columbian Exposition, they set up shop in places like Lambert Tree Studios and the 57th Street Artist Colony. Nationally renowned figures like Theodore Dreiser, Margaret Anderson, Frank Lloyd Wright and Louis Sullivan became colleagues, confidants and neighbors. In the 1920s, Carl Sandburg, Emma Goldman, Ernest Hemingway, Ben Hecht, Edna St. Vincent Millay and Clarence Darrow transformed the speakeasies and bohemian bistros of Towertown into Chicago's Greenwich Village. In Old Town, Renaissance man Edgar Miller and progressive architect Andrew Rebori collaborated on the Frank Fisher Studios, one of the finest examples of Art Moderne architecture in the country. From Nellie Walker to Roger Ebert, Keith Stolte visits Chicago's ascendant artistic spirits in their chosen sanctuaries.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Education
ISBN : IND:30000097142982
