For Researchers Table of Contents with links to data sets used in Building the Skyline PART I: BEFORE THE SKYSCRAPER REVOLUTION 1. Manhattan’s Natural History [Bedrock Depth by Block] 2. Mannahatta to Manhattan: Settlement to Grid Plan [Historical Land Values] 3. Land Use before the Civil War [Directory Data 1827_1849] 4. The Tenements and the Skyline [Lower East Side Tenement Rents Data 1900] Shapefiles of Manhattan: Manhattan_Blocks_1900; Manhattan_Parks_1900; Manhattan_Sanitation Districts_1890 PART II: THE RISE OF THE SKYLINE 5. The Economics of Skyscraper Height [no data sets at this time] 6. Measuring the Skyline [Skyscraper Times Series Data sets] 7. The Bedrock Myth [Skyscrapers and Depth to Bedrock Data] 8. The Birth of Midtown [no data sets at this time] 9. Edifice Complex? The Cause of the 1920s Building Boom [no data sets at this time] 10. What’s Manhattan Worth? 150 Years of Land Values Epilogue: Resilient Skyline?