{"pk":58183,"title":"Utopian Verticality: the Skyscraper and the Superhero in the American Imagination","subtitle":null,"abstract":"This essay examines the privileged status of verticality as a sign of utopian promise and possibility in two iconic, and often symbiotic, urban symbols:  the skyscraper and the superhero.","language":"en","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"verticality"}],"section":"Articles","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5xp7m6kp","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Tina","middle_name":"","last_name":"Wasserman","name_suffix":"","institution":"The School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University","department":""}],"date_submitted":"2018-08-06T23:43:23Z","date_accepted":"2018-08-06T23:43:23Z","date_published":"2019-05-13T22:08:45Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/ucdavislibrary_streetnotes/article/58183/galley/44338/download/"}]}