American ground, unbuilding the World Trade Center, William Langewiesche
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American ground, unbuilding the World Trade Center, William Langewiesche
Language
eng
Index
no index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
American ground
Oclc number
53078513
Responsibility statement
William Langewiesche
Sub title
unbuilding the World Trade Center
Summary
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
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Subject
- World Trade Center (New York, N.Y. : 1970-2001)
- Construction and demolition debris -- New York (State) -- New York
- Skyscrapers -- New York (State) -- New York -- Design and construction
- September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001
- Underground construction -- New York (State) -- New York
- Incident command systems -- New York (State) -- New York
- Structural engineering -- New York (State) -- New York
- Wrecking -- New York (State) -- New York
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- World Trade Center (New York, N.Y. : 1970-2001)
- Construction and demolition debris -- New York (State) -- New York
- Skyscrapers -- New York (State) -- New York -- Design and construction
- September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001
- Underground construction -- New York (State) -- New York
- Incident command systems -- New York (State) -- New York
- Structural engineering -- New York (State) -- New York
- Wrecking -- New York (State) -- New York
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