American ground : unbuilding the World Trade Center / William Langewiesche.

Author/creator Langewiesche, William
Format Book
Edition1st pbk. ed.
Publication InfoNew York : North Point Press, ©2003.
Description218 pages : map ; 22 cm
Supplemental ContentPublisher description
Supplemental ContentContributor biographical information
Subjects
World Trade Center (New York, N.Y. : 1970-2001)
September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001.
Wrecking--New York (State). --New York.
Incident command systems--New York (State). --New York.
Skyscrapers--New York (State). --New York. --Design and construction.
Construction and demolition debris--New York (State). --New York.
Structural engineering--New York (State). --New York.
Underground construction.

Contents The inner world -- Rush to recover -- Dance of the dinosaurs -- Afterword to the paperback edition.
Abstract 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.
General noteWith new Afterword.
ISBN0865476756 (pbk.)
ISBN9780865476752 (pbk.)

Availability

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Joyner TRC Nonfiction 974.71044 L263A ✔ Available Place Hold