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Divided We Stand
A Biography Of New York's World Trade Center
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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.
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Basic Books; January 2008
304 pages; ISBN 9780465011339
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304 pages; ISBN 9780465011339
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Subject categories
- Social Science > Anthropology > Cultural
- Architecture > Public, Commercial, or Industrial Buildings
- Architecture > History
- Architecture > Urban & Land Use Planning
- History > United States > Civil War Period (1850-1877)
- History > United States > Colonial Period (1600-1775)
- History > United States > 20th Century
- History > Military > Vietnam War
- Political Science > City Planning & Urban Development
- History > Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
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0465028160
9780465011339
9780465017270
9780465028160