ISBN:
9781479880423
,
1479880426
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (316 pages)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Bernard, Andreas, 1969- Lifted
DDC:
306.46
Keywords:
Elevators History
;
Elevators Social aspects
;
History
;
Elevators Social aspects
;
History
;
Elevators History
;
POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture
;
HISTORY ; General
;
Elevators
;
History
;
Electronic books
;
Aufzug
;
Kultur
;
Geschichte
Abstract:
Before skyscrapers forever transformed the landscape of the modern metropolis, the conveyance that made them possible had to be created. Invented in New York in the 1850s, the elevator became an urban fact of life on both sides of the Atlantic by the early twentieth century. While it may at first glance seem a modest innovation, it had wide-ranging effects, from fundamentally restructuring building design to reinforcing social class hierarchies by moving luxury apartments to upper levels, previously the domain of the lower classes. The cramped elevator cabin itself served as a reflection of li
Note:
Description based on print version record
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