Divided We Stand A Biography Of New York's World Trade Center: A Biography of New York City's World Trade Center - Softcover

Darton, Eric

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0465017274 ISBN 13: 9780465017270

Verlag: Basic Books, 2000

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.

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Eric Darton is the author of the critically acclaimed novel Free City, a cofounder of Yomama Art in New York City, and a former contributing editor of Conjunctions. He teaches media, technology, and cultural studies at Hunter College in New York City.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Basic Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0465017274
• ISBN 13: 9780465017270
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256
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