A Short History of the Highrise: Part 1 | NYT Op-Docs

New York Times Opinion · 58K views · 2013 · 4:31

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Traces the historical and cultural origins of residential highrise buildings from the Tower of Babel to New York tenements.

Linked by 3 independent sites, 2 of them widely read in the 2026-10 crawl of the open web, including miami.edu, openculture.com, i-docs.org.