Published: Infobase, 2011
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1 streaming video file (180 min.) : sd., col., digital file.
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“…New York's 400 Year March to the Center of the World (3:13) -- Everyone has a New York in their heads (0:53) -- Artistic Perspective (2:08) -- Symbol of Modernity (2:07) -- Twin Towers - Last of their Kind (2:23) -- Moonshot of Structural Engineering (3:30) -- The Last Great Project (2:14) -- Saving Lower Manhattan (3:03) -- Rockefeller's Motivation (2:21) -- Downtown Lower Manhattan Association (3:43) -- Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (4:58) -- Nelson Rockefeller (1:29) -- Violating the First Law of Economics (1:29) -- Aesthetic Impression of the Twin Towers (1:49) -- Resistance from New Jersey (3:47) -- Biggest Building Project Since the Egyptian Pyramids (5:30) -- Architect Minoru Yamasaki (3:39) -- Final World Trade Center Design (2:55) -- Reaction to the Final Design (2:05) -- 'The Buildings You Loved to Hate' (3:49) -- Urban Renewal Formula of the 1960s (2:59) -- 'King of Cortlandt Street' (3:49) -- Leveling Cortlandt Street (1:32) -- Quote from Ada Louise Huxtable,
Architecture Critic (0:40) -- 'What I Had Now in My Chest Was a Dream' (1:41) -- Genius of the Twin Towers (2:44) -- August 5th, 1966 - Work Begins (0:47) -- Conquering the Wind (4:41) -- Public Relations (0:59) -- Construction of the Twin Towers (2:17) -- Unprecedented Safety Check (2:41) -- Vietnam (2:16) -- December 23rd, 1970 - Completion (3:10) -- Resisting Vitality (3:27) -- Tenants of the World Trade Center (1:00) -- New York's Descent (1:59) -- Austin Tobin's Last Visit (2:55)…”
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