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  Building the Skyline

  

  The Housing Twenties: New York’s Biggest Building Boom and Its Lessons for Today

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  Jason M. Barr October 29, 2024Let’s travel back a century—to New York during the Roaring Twenties.On our journey, we will see a very different …

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  Building the Skyline

  

  To Boldly House Where no Housing has Gone Before (Part II): Land Reclamation and World History - Skynomics Blog

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  This post reveals the hidden history of how urban land reclamation has influenced the rise and fall of the world's most powerful empires.

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  Building the Skyline

  

  The Power Author: Robert Caro, Robert Moses, and the “Fall” of New York

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  Jason M. Barr August 5, 2024A few weeks ago, I was walking in Central Park on the Upper West Side. As I strolled past some benches near the Diana …

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  Building the Skyline

  

  To Boldly House Where no Housing has Gone Before (Part I): New York’s Land Reclamation History

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  Jason M. Barr July 15, 2024Many cities around the world are facing housing affordability crises. In New York, for example, a majority of renters are …

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  Building the Skyline

  

  The Jenney Myth: How the Home Insurance Building Falsely Became the “First Skyscraper” (Part II)

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  Jason M. Barr July 1, 2024Note: This blog post is based on the research discussed in my book Cities in the Sky: The Quest to Build the World’s Tallest …

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  Building the Skyline

  

  The Jenney Myth: How the Home Insurance Building Falsely Became the “First Skyscraper” (Part I)

  buildingtheskyline.org - Jason Barr

  Jason M. Barr June 24, 2024Note: This blog post is based on the research discussed in my book Cities in the Sky: The Quest to Build the World’s …