Twin towers
Subtitle: the life of New York City's World Trade Center
By: Angus Kress Gillespie.
Edition: Rev. ed.
Publisher: New American Library
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
Subjects: World Trade Center (New York, N.Y.); Skyscrapers -- New York (State) -- New York.; City planning -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century.; New York (N.Y.) -- Buildings, structures, etc.
Description: Examines the World Trade Center as an American icon, describing the conception, design, and construction of the Twin Towers and relating the activities that took place there during a normal twenty-four-hour day.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.[267]-290) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Political Background:; title: The Uneasy Alliance Between New York and New Jersey; title: It Can't Be Done:; title: Overcoming Obstacles in Building Tall Towers; title: 3 Erecting the Towers:; title: It's One Story After Another; title: 4 Winning Acceptance:; title: How a White Elephant Became Prime Real Estate; title: 5 Architecture:; title: Beloved by All Except the Experts; title: The World Trade Center Concept:; title: Not Just Another Office Building; title: 7 A City within a City;; title: Or, A Day in the Life; title: Destruction:; title: The Terrorist Attack and Its Aftermath.