ENGLISH

American ground: unbuilding the World Trade Center

By William , Langewiesche

Book information

Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux;North Point Press
ISBN
9780865475823, 0865475822, 9780865476752, 0865476756
Language
english
Format
AZW3
Filesize
326 kB (333804 bytes)
Edition
1st pbk. ed
Pages
218 pages : map ; 22 cm\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
2001;Skyscrapers--Design and construction;StructurConstruction and demolition debris--New York (StatN.Y. : 197

Description

The inner world -- Rush to recover -- Dance of the dinosaurs -- Afterword to the paperback edition.;At the center of the book is the team of engineers, many of them instrumental in building the towers, who now must collaborate in the sad task of disassembling them. Their responses are as dramatic and unpredictable as the shifting pile of rubble and the surrounding "slurry wall" that constantly threatens to collapse, potentially flooding a large part of underground Manhattan. They are also emotional and territorial, as firemen, police, widows, and officials attempt to claim the tragedy-and the difficult work of extracting the rubble and the thousands of dead buried there-as their own. The inner world -- Rush to recover -- Dance of the dinosaurs -- Afterword to the paperback edition.

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