Word: skyscrapersful
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No matter. Moments after he saw the show, a charmed Mackintosh offered to transport it from its bandbox site to the pilastered prestige of London's West End. There its exuberance and energy wedded happily with a larger space and wittier, more elaborate settings, a fantasy urban landscape in which...
The suburbs along the ring of that doughnut, with the help of lobbying leverage and clever zoning laws, are able to treat central Camden as a dump. Today the main inner-city industry is scrap: Camden exports 1.2 million tons a year. The waterfront is lined with piles of twisted...
GM's problems have not been felt as severely at the other two Detroit automakers. Ford and Chrysler went through their own major retrenchments in the 1980s and have been able to make stronger commitments to team-production techniques. In terms of corporate structure, "size guarantees you nothing anymore," says...
Although it no longer rules the heavens (Chicago's Sears Tower, at 1,454 ft., and New York City's own World Trade Center, 1,368 ft., soar higher than the Empire State Building's now modest 1,250 ft.), the grande dame of skyscrapers is apparently still fetching enough...
The year 1892 was an annus mirabilis in the U.S. The best symbol of that was Chicago, a city leveled by fire as recently as 1871 but subsequently bristling with the continent's first cluster of skyscrapers. For the 1893 World's Fair that became known as the World's...