Divided We Stand: A Biography Of New York's World Trade Center
Divided We Stand: A Biography Of New York's World Trade Center by Eric Darton
English | December 23, 1999 | ISBN: 0465017010, 0465017274 | EPUB | 256 pages | 1.5 MB
English | December 23, 1999 | ISBN: 0465017010, 0465017274 | EPUB | 256 pages | 1.5 MB
When the World Trade Towers in New York City were erected at the Hudson's edge, they led the way to a real estate boom that was truly astonishing. Divided We Stand reveals the coming together and eruption of four volatile elements: super-tall buildings, financial speculation, globalization, and terrorism. The Trade Center serves as a potent symbol of the disastrous consequences of undemocratic planning and development.
This book is a history of that skyscraping ambition and the impact it had on New York and international life. It is a portrait of a building complex that lives at the convergence point of social and economic realities central not only to New York City but to all industrial cities and suburbs. A meticulously researched historical account based on primary documents, Divided We Stand is a contemporary indictment of the prevailing urban order in the spirit of Jane Jacobs's mid-century classic The Death and Life of Great American Cities.