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Columbia Univeristy: Architecture of New York City: Birth of the Skyscraper

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Learn about how and why skyscrapers were first built, and why they became a major symbol of New York City. This highly interactive site includes video lectures on the development and importance of skyscrapers, a timeline of commercial architecture, information on key individuals in New York's architectural history, and plenty of images of skyscrapers throughout the city.

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Concepts

architecture, skyscrapers

Additional Tags

famous buildings, steel skeletons, world's tallest buildings, empire state building, flatiron building, new york skyscrapers, woolworth building, buildings in new york

Classroom Considerations

Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

This resource is only available on an unencrypted HTTP website.It should be fine for general use, but don’t use it to share any personally identifiable information

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