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"""Chicago 1890 presents a new perspective on the skyscraper and the city, revising and extending our view of Chicago's place in modern architecture. Joanna Merwood-Salisbury very effectively links three of the most important early skyscrapers to contemporaneous thought, speculation, and debates about the modernizing city. In doing so, she illuminates the environment of imagination and experiment that surrounded the skyscrapers, a kaleidoscopic world that couldn't have diverged further from the way that twentieth-century modernists later presented it."" - Gail Fenske, author of The Skyscraper and the City"""

Chicago 1890 presents a new perspective on the skyscraper and the city, revising and extending our view of Chicago's place in modern architecture. Joanna Merwood-Salisbury very effectively links three of the most important early skyscrapers to contemporaneous thought, speculation, and debates about the modernizing city. In doing so, she illuminates the environment of imagination and experiment that surrounded the skyscrapers, a kaleidoscopic world that couldn't have diverged further from the way that twentieth-century modernists later presented it. - Gail Fenske, author of The Skyscraper and the City

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Joanna Merwood-Salisbury is assistant professor in the Department of Architecture, Interior Design and Lighting at Parsons The New School for Design.

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