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Review: Chicago 1890: The Skyscraper and the Modern City, by Joanna Merwood-Salisbury
Kristen Schaffer
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Book Review| March 01 2013 Review: Chicago 1890: The Skyscraper and the Modern City, by Joanna Merwood-Salisbury Joanna Merwood-SalisburyChicago 1890: The Skyscraper and the Modern CityChicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2009, 208 pp., 89 b/w illus. $45, ISBN 9780226520780 Kristen Schaffer Kristen Schaffer 1North Carolina State University Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (2013) 72 (1): 116–117. https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2013.72.1.116 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Kristen Schaffer; Review: Chicago 1890: The Skyscraper and the Modern City, by Joanna Merwood-Salisbury. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 1 March 2013; 72 (1): 116–117. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2013.72.1.116 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of the Society of Architectural Historians Search Chicago 1890: The Skyscraper and the Modern City is a welcome addition to the scholarship on the Chicago skyscraper. Perhaps it is more accurate to say the book contributes to the scholarship of Chicago and to the scholarship of the skyscraper. By examining “these architectural artifacts through the lens of their own time, in their social and urban contexts” (4). Joanna Merwood-Salisbury contributes insights to the histories of both. And by focusing her research on the Inland Architect and Builder (later the Inland Architect and News Record) between 1883 and 1908, she is able to re-create a sense of immediacy and newness, and at the same time introduce the remarkable range of issues that surrounded this building type’s development. Her first chapter, on the tall office building as a regional type, is a broadly researched and well-composed summary of the topic. Merwood-Salisbury provides brief but satisfying accounts of the... You do not currently have access to this content.