The Buildings of Detroit: A History - Image 1

£72.75

Wayne State University Press The Buildings of Detroit: A History

Name: The Buildings of Detroit: A History
Brand: Wayne State University Press
Price: 105.0 GBP
Availability: InStock

Criticism & Theory

Price History & Forecast

Last 71 days • 71 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 71 days • 2 price levels

Days at Price

Current Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £73 (51 days, 71.8%)

Price range: £73 - £105

Price levels: 2 different prices over 71 days

Description

First published in 1968, The Buildings of Detroit: A History by W. Hawkins Ferry is the definitive resource on the architecture of Detroit and its adjacent communities, from pioneering times to the end of the twentieth century. Ferry based his impressive volume on thirteen years of meticulous research, interviews with many prominent architects, and hundreds of photos commissioned specifically for the book. Ferry revised The Buildings of Detroit in 1980, adding the Renaissance Center and other modern works, and this re-released version presents the revised edition adding only a new foreword by John Gallagher. spans from the early 1700s, when the city was a fur-trading post in the wilderness, to its more contemporary position as the capital of the automotive industry and a major industrial city. Along the way, Ferry offers glimpses of the log cabins of early explorers and soldiers, the Victorian mansions of lumber barons, and the Grosse Pointe and Bloomfield Hills residences of motor magnates. He traces the development of new building techniques that gave rise to the American skyscraper and the modern factory. Ferry details all of downtown’s landmark buildings, including many that are no longer standing, and visits fascinating neighborhood structures like movie theatres, hotels, shopping centres, and apartment buildings. In each chapter, readers will meet the visionary architects and clients whose foresight and initiative helped shape the fabric of one of America’s great cities. The Buildings of Detroit also includes a selected chronology, maps, references, notes, an extensive index, and 475 illustrations. Previously out of print and difficult to find, this re-released classic will be treasured by Detroit history buffs and architectural historians.

Product Specifications

Brand: Wayne State University Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0814316654
Category: Books > Subjects > Arts & Photography > Architecture > Criticism & Theory
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 15 October 2012
Listed Since: 23 January 2007

Barcode

No barcode data available

Wayne State University Press The Buildings of Detroit: A History

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Buildings of Michigan (Buildings of the United States)

Why Detroit matters: Decline, Renewal and Hope in a Divided City

The Straight Detroit: America's Premier Legacy City

Living Detroit: Environmental Activism in an Age of Urban Crisis (Routledge Equity, Justice and the Sustainable City series)

Dream City – Creation, Destruction, and Reinvention in Downtown Detroit (The MIT Press)

Reinventing Detroit: The Politics of Possibility (Comparative Urban and Community Research)

Detroit–Moscow–Detroit: An Architecture for Industrialization, 1917–1945

A People's History of Detroit

Conception du détail en architecture

Popular American Housing: A Reference Guide (American Popular Culture)

Bulidings of Wisconsin (Buildings of the United States)

Architreasures: A Journey Through 20th-Century Architecture

Entwicklungsgesetze der Stadt: Vorträge und Berichte

Decimus Burton: Gentleman Architect

Fritz Leonhardt 1909-1999: Die Kunst des Konstruierens / The Art of Engineering: The Art of Engineering Design

Les éléments des projets de construction - 11e édition

Introduction to Real Estate Development and Finance

Digitalisation: Opportunities and Challenges for Business: Volume 2: 621 (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, 621)

Buildings and Landmarks of 20th- and 21st-Century America: American Society Revealed

Architektur in Deutschland im 20. Jahrhundert: Geschichte, Gesellschaft, Funktionen

Introduction to Real Estate Development and Finance

Building Structures

Reconstructing Modernity: Space, Power and Governance in Mid-Twentieth Century British Cities

Buildings of Vermont (Buildings of the United States)