文档介绍：WORLD TRADE CENTER
The Giant that Defied the Sky
By Peter Skinner
Preface by Mike Wallace
Editorial Project
Valeria Manferto de Fabianis
Graphic Design
Patrizia o Lovisetti
© METRO BOOKS 2002
Reprinted by the Gotham Center with permission. All rights reserved.
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Contents*
Preface
by Mike Wallace : 4
Introduction : 5
Manhattan Before the Twin Towers : 11
The Twin Towers: Design and Architecture
by io Tartaro : 16
The World Trade Center in Movies and Media : 23
The New Heart of the Financial District : 28
September 11, 2001 : 34
*Note: Not all photographs for World Trade Center are integrated here. We have
included any photographs for which we have permission to print.
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Preface
by Mike Wallace
The hijacked planes that zeroed in on New York and Washington with
such murderous accuracy obviously chose their targets for a reason. They
didn’t attack Los Angeles and Miami, after all. Why not? It’s reasonable to
assume that they chose cities and buildings that they believed had great
symbolic and actual potency: the respective headquarters of the military
and financial institutions whose decisions have tremendous impact
throughout the globe.
As we’ve seen from the outpouring of
support from around the world, millions
of people love and admire the United
States and its pre-eminent urban
centers.
But others hate us passionately. Not,
despite what some say, because we are
the land of the free and good, but
because the nation has embraced
policies from which they feel they’ve
suffered. Driven by calculated strategy
and suicidal fanaticism, they’ve dealt a
terrific blow to proud towers and
command centers alike.
New Yorkers are rolling with the blow
magnificently, despite the added shock
of having e both figuratively and
literally out of the clear blue sky,
shattering our sense of invulnerability. Figure 1
But that sense always rested on a truncated reading of history. While the
particular form of the a