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Utopian Verticality: the Skyscraper and the Superhero in the American Imagination
- Author(s): Wasserman, Tina
- et al.
Abstract
This essay examines the privileged status of verticality as a sign of utopian promise and possibility in two iconic, and often symbiotic, urban symbols: the skyscraper and the superhero.