City in the Sky: The Rise and Fall of the World Trade Center
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City in the Sky traces the history of the World Trade Center, from the ambitious plans that gave birth to the towers through to their collapse on September 11, 2001. James Glanz and Eric Lipton, reporters for the New York Times, draw on deep research to show how the project came together. They recount the vision of David Rockefeller, who wanted to remake lower Manhattan, and the resistance from local shopkeepers and powerful politicians. The engineering choices that shaped the buildings, and that later affected who lived and who died, receive close attention, as does the chaotic recovery effort that followed the attacks. The book is part city history, part architectural story, and an account of an American landmark that many people had come to think of as permanent.
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