The Chrysler Building

From an online site about the Chrysler Building :

It did not take long for the euphoria of the skyscraper to wear off. Despite the efforts to place the Chrysler Building within the continuum of the past, some reacted against the effects of the steel behemoths. Headlines cried out "What Price Tall Buildings?" and worried letters to the editor asked, "Must we soon travel vertically from home to office?" As the depression worsened, people saw the skyscraper as a symbol of the excess that had caused the financial collapse. Skyscrapers sent the price of real-estate soaring almost exponentially, making high buildings even more necessary. The higher the price of land, the bigger the building had to be to make a profit. This vicious cycle was creating an urban jungle.

Architect Frank Lloyd Wright was not a reactionist to technology, but he thought it should be used to escape from the city:

"All of our modern inventors and that amazing thing, the machine, have taken away from the city the excuse for its being. We don't need it any more. The city is centralization to the nth degree and the skyscraper is its peak. The centralization ideal died when democracy was born." (qtd. in "Skyscrapers" 324).