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Elevators, Passenger conveyors, Escalators, Modern ArchitectureShowing 1 featured edition. View all 1 editions?
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Up down across: elevators, escalators, and moving sidewalks
2003, National Building Museum, Merrell
in English
1858942136 9781858942131
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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.
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