Divided We Stand: A Biography Of New York's World Trade Center - Hardcover

Darton, Eric

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0465017010 ISBN 13: 9780465017010

Verlag: Basic Books, 1999

Inhaltsangabe

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 .

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Basic Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0465017010
• ISBN 13: 9780465017010
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256
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