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 | The Sky's the Limit: Passion and Property in Manhattan
Author: Steven Gaines
Publisher: Time Warner/Little Brown
Year: 2005
ISBN 0316608513
| List Price: $26.95
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Category: Buildings / By Location / North America / New York /
Category: Buildings / By Building Type / Multifamily Residential /
ArchitectureWeek Description
A chronicle of the changes in Manhattan's residential skyline, from the slums of the nineteenth century to the advent of the luxury building. Gaines describes how living in boxes stacked on boxes came to be seen as the ultimate in status, and how the co—operative apartment, originally conceived as a form of housing for the poor, came to be used as a legal means of blackballing undesirable neighbors. Amazon Customer Average Rating:
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