Divided We Stand: A Biography of New York's World Trade Center (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780465027651)

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.

Author: Eric Darton
ISBN-10: 0465027652
ISBN-13: 9780465027651
Publisher: Basic Books
Language: English
Published: 08/02/2011
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.78lbs
Size: 9.26h x 5.67w x 0.81d