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Twin Towers: The Life of New York City's World Trade Center
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Angus Kress Gillespie. |
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Rutgers |
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hardcover
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0813527422 |
| Pages/Publication Date |
263/1999 |
| Daedalus Item Code |
32626 |
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The Twin Towers of the World Trade Center were more than office buildings—they were symbols of America, just as the Eiffel Tower and Big Ben represent their countries. Not long before the terrorist attack of 2001 that destroyed them, folklorist Angus Gillespie created this portrait of the World Trade Center complex and the people who built it and who worked in it. The book recounts the deft political maneuvering that led to its final siting in what was once a dilapidated area of half-abandoned stores. Gillespie demonstrates how engineers prepared the site and solved complex problems of wind patterns, elevator placement, and ground-water. He also discusses the contrast between the architectural community's original disdain for the project and the public's enthusiastic acceptance of the buildings as a symbol of New York. It is the people who give this complex life, purpose, and vibrancy, Gillespie points out. And through numerous first-hand interviews, he portrays the world of bankers, shippers, freight forwarders, and traders who worked at the WTC, through a normal 24-hour day.
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