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- History by the Numbers
Skyscrapers
(Season 1,
Episode 15)
- TV Episode | History
The history of skyscrapers is often linked to the history of American cities, technological ingenuity, and a global boom in urbanization. From West to East, and 5 stories up to 1km high, there's nowhere to go but up.
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Andrew Ivimey
Self - Narrator (voice)
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Jason M. Barr
Self - Professor of Economics, Rutger University
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Mark Houser
Self - Author, Multistories: 55 Antique Skyscrapers and the Busibess Tycoons Who Built Them
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Terri Meyer Boake
Self - Prodessorof Architecture, University of Waterloo
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Nicholas Ferroni
Self - History Teacher, Union High School, New Jersey
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Sarah Lacy
Self - Associate Professor of Anthropology, California State University
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Alain Robert
Self - 'The French Spiderman'
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Walter Percy Chrysler
Self (credit only) (archive footage)
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Zaha Hadid
Self (credit only) (archive footage)
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William Le Baron Jenny
Self (credit only) (archive footage)
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Xi Jinping
Self (credit only) (archive footage)
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Fazlur Rahman Khan
Self (credit only) (archive footage)
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Elisha Otis
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
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