SKYSCRAPER HEAVENS
Introduction:
The title of the book is Skyscraper Heavens. Those two words came to mind before dawn the morning of December 31, 2014.
The skyscraper is a male-dominant image, a phallus, a challenging conception of engineers, developers and heads of law firms, banks and insurance companies. The skyscraper, or hi-rise, as it is more commonly known today, is prevalent in history [See, “Tower of Babel” Genesis 11:4 et seq.; the necessity of shared resources of a precinct, unit, fort or firm {e.g. a library or intelligence unit}; the World Trade Center attack, Manhattan, New York City, New York, September 11, 2001]to objectify in steel, concrete, mirrors, and other building materials the concept of professional success in the industrial era; see also Marcuse, Herbert One Dimensional Man (1964). The history of the modern hi-rise, perhaps beginning with the Eiffel Tower’s erection upon its pedestal in 1889, portends prestige as…