An edition of Twin towers (1999)

Twin Towers

The Life of New York City's World Trade Center

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An edition of Twin towers (1999)

Twin Towers

The Life of New York City's World Trade Center

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"The Twin Towers of the World Trade Center are more than office buildings. Completed in 1976, these edifices are still the tallest man-made structures in New York City."--BOOK JACKET.

"Angus Gillespie recounts the political maneuvering necessary for the co-sponsor, the State of New Jersey, to agree to situate the project across the river in New York. Deftly presenting portraits of the men responsible for mooring the World Trade Center at its present location, he provides ample evidence that the backers were "second to none in self-promotion.""--BOOK JACKET.

"Twin Towers also demonstrates how engineers prepared the site and solved complex problems (wind patterns, elevator placement, ground-water complications) in order to erect the towers, each with 110 stories. And Gillespie discusses the contrast between the architectural community's almost universal disdain for the towers' design and the public's enthusiastic acceptance of the buildings as a symbol of New York."--BOOK JACKET.

"Gillespie captures what happens during a normal twenty-four-hour day in the Twin Towers, starting with early morning food deliveries and ending with the patrols of nighttime security guards."--BOOK JACKET.

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Language
English
Pages
263

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Cover of: Twin towers
Twin towers: the life of New York City's World Trade Center
2002, New American Library
in English - Rev. ed.
Cover of: Twin Towers
Cover of: Twin Towers
Twin Towers: The Life of New York City's World Trade Center
November 1999, Rutgers University Press
Hardcover in English
Cover of: Twin towers
Twin towers: the life of New York City's World Trade Center
1999, Rutgers University Press
in English

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First Sentence

"AUSTIN TOBIN, the high-powered and hard-charging executive director of the Port Authority of New York, arrives for work early in the morning in his chauffeured Cadillac limousine."

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Number of pages
263
Dimensions
9.4 x 6.4 x 0.9 inches
Weight
1.4 pounds

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL8025635M
Internet Archive
twintowerslifeof00gill
ISBN 10
0813527422
ISBN 13
9780813527420
Library Thing
282560
Goodreads
892275

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