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Columbia Univeristy: Architecture of New York City: Birth of the Skyscraper

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Learn about how and why skyscrapers were first built, and why they became a major symbol of New York City. This highly interactive site includes video lectures on the development and importance of skyscrapers, a timeline of commercial architecture, information on key individuals in New York's architectural history, and plenty of images of skyscrapers throughout the city.

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Concepts
architecture, skyscrapers
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Additional Tags
famous buildings, steel skeletons, world's tallest buildings, empire state building, flatiron building, new york skyscrapers, woolworth building, buildings in new york
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Classroom Considerations
  • Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • This resource is only available on an unencrypted HTTP website.It should be fine for general use, but don’t use it to share any personally identifiable information