SECRET SPACES ATOP CHICAGO

74 Pages·2012·9.46 MB·English

SECRET SPACES ATOP CHICAGO:
a cultural history of the urge to climb above the city
Why are people
drawn to spaces
atop the city?
Book overview
• Photo Essay #1: Posing on Rooftops

• Chapter #1: Observation Decks

• Photo Essay #2: Daredevils

• Chapter #2: Clubs in the Sky (Artists, Secret Societies and other Strange Gatherings)

• Photo Essay #3: Lighting up the Night

• Chapter #3: Spreading the News (Spaces of Myth, Branding and Media)

• Photo Essay #4: Spaces of Vertigo & Beauty

• Chapter #4: Rooftops in the 21st Century

• Afterword

Historic Precedents for climbing above:
(top) Tower of Babel, stylites in the deserts of Anatolia, medieval Italian towers in Bologna, Longhua pagoda Shanghai
(bottom) Al Azhar mosque Cairo, Montaigne’s tower, Eiffel Tower and Tatlin’s Soviet experimental tower for St. Petersburg.
A first excursion above the city: World’s Columbian Exposition Ferris Wheel