An edition of Up down across (2003)

Up down across

elevators, escalators, and moving sidewalks

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English
Pages
223

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Up down across: elevators, escalators, and moving sidewalks
2003, National Building Museum, Merrell
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Washington, D.C, London, New York

Table of Contents

Visual prelude
Preface: vertical, horizontal, diagonal / Dr. Henry Petroski
1. Turning point: conveyance and the Paris Exposition of 1900 / Alisa Goetz
2. Designing non-space: the evolution of the elevator interior / Peter A. Hall
3. A matter of perception: escalators, moving sidewalks, and the motion of society / John King
4. Hovering vision / Phil Patton
5. Conveyance "germs": elevators, automated vehicles, and the shape of global cities / Keller Easterling
6. Perspectives on the escalator in photography and art / Julie Wosk
7. Elevator stories: vertical imagination and the spaces of possibility / Susan Garfinkel.

Edition Notes

Published on the occasion of the exhibition at the National building Museum, September 12, 2003-April 18, 2004.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [214-218]) and index.

Also issued online.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
724.6
Library of Congress
TJ1370 .U63 2003

The Physical Object

Pagination
223 p. :
Number of pages
223

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24825469M
ISBN 10
1858942136, 1858942144
ISBN 13
9781858942131, 9781858942148
LCCN
2010497338
OCLC/WorldCat
52565535, 57751915

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