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Reading the Walls: The Politics of Architecture in Scribner's Magazine, 1887-1914
- Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, and Theory
- University of Arizona
- Volume 47, Number 1, Spring 1991
- pp. 49-79
- 10.1353/arq.1991.0017
- Article
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New York, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, St. Louis, even Washington—they all are rising bodily, constantly, fast, and their climbing skylines are writing with reckless realism across the heavens the same great story of material progress. It is time to read this writing of the walls.