Product Description: The City of Big Shoulders has always been our most quintessentially American—and world-class—architectural metropolis. In the wake of the Great Fire of 1871, a great building boom—still the largest in the history of the nation—introduced the first modern skyscrapers to the Chicago skyline and began what would become a legacy of diverse, influential, and iconoclastic contributions to the city’s built environment...read more

A study of New York City in the early twentieth century highlights the famously sleek style of design that changed the way people thought of modernity, complete with numerous color and black-and-white photographs that exemplify the beauty and elegance of the Art Deco style.

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