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Bezig met laden... Divided We Stand: A Biography of New York City's World Trade Centerdoor Eric Darton
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. This was a fascinating and eerie read. Published in 1999, reading it in 2017 is like looking at the snapshot on the cover. It depicts a bygone world. ( ) I have around a dozen books on the World Trade Center, both in its first incarnation and its post-9/11 rebuilding. Books on the original Twin Towers tend to focus on politics and architecture, the former about the Port Authority and the latter about Minoru Yamasaki's feat of designing and building two 110-story towers on landfill near the tip of Lower Manhattan. Although Eric Darton delves into those same realms, he takes a different approach in Divided We Stand, writing a "biography" that is more of a cultural history than political or architectural histories. Darton also has a knack for finding stories or facts that seem tangential but are integral to the making of the Twin Towers – or at least he has included information that has been left out of other histories. He looks to the 1811 grid of Manhattan, Le Corbusier, the blast outside JP Morgan's bank in 1920, and elsewhere for sources of the Twin Towers' realization but also their attempted destruction — "attempted" in 1999, at least, when the book first came out. But Darton's choice to start the book with a scenario for its destruction is prescient, as is his exploration of how the mind of an architect building the towers and that of a terrorist wanting to bring them down were aligned – through cold abstraction, that is. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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 . Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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