Divided We Stand : A Biography of New York's World Trade Center. This item is unavailable.Divided We Stand : A Biography of New York's World Trade Center

Darton, a university media and technology instructor and writer, provides an entertaining, highly informative architectural biography of New York City's most recognizable architectural structure, critiquing it as a symbol of the disastrous consequences of undemocratic planning and development and charting the history and impact of Manhattan's architecture on international and local life. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

A perspective on urban culture in the latter part of the 20th century through the lens of the World Trade Center. . When the World Trade Towers in New York City were erected at the Hudsons 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 Jacobss mid-century classic The Death and Life of Great American Cities .