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Trump Tower, the skyscraper and the future of urban development

  • Written by Kevin D. Murphy, Andrew W Mellon Chair in the Humanities and Professor and Chair of History of Art, Vanderbilt University
imageIn many cities, the only direction to go is up.'Skyscrapers' via www.shutterstock.com

George Washington had Mount Vernon. Thomas Jefferson had Monticello. Now President-elect Donald Trump has his eponymous Manhattan skyscraper, Trump Tower. Our first and third presidents saw their plantations as both productive and symbolic of American identity...

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