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eBook details
- Title: Hotel Dreams
- Author : Molly W. Berger
- Release Date : January 18, 2011
- Genre: Engineering,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 11769 KB
Description
Hotel Dreams is a deeply researched and entertaining account of how the hotel's material world of machines and marble integrated into and shaped the society it served. Molly W. Berger offers a compelling history of the American hotel and how it captured the public's imagination as it came to represent the complexรข€”and often contentiousรข€”relationship among luxury, economic development, and the ideals of a democratic society.
Berger profiles the country's most prestigious hotels, including Boston's 1829 Tremont, San Francisco's world-famous Palace, and Chicago's enormous Stevens. The fascinating stories behind their design, construction, and marketing reveal in rich detail how these buildings became cultural symbols that shaped the urban landscape.