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American ground : unbuilding the World Trade Center / William Langewiesche.
- Title
- American ground : unbuilding the World Trade Center / William Langewiesche.
- Author
- Langewiesche, William
- Publication
- New York : North Point Press, 2002.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | HV6432 .L364 2002 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 205 p. : map; 22 cm.
- 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.
- Subject
- World Trade Center (New York, N.Y. : 1970-2001)
- 2001
- Risk Management
- Models, Structual
- September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001
- Wrecking > New York
- Incident command systems > New York
- Skyscrapers > New York > Design and construction
- Construction and demolition debris > New York
- Structural engineering > New York
- Underground construction > New York
- Underground construction
- New York (State)
- New York
- Note
- Map on lining papers.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The inner world -- Rush to recover -- Dance of the dinosaurs.
- ISBN
- 0865475822 (hc. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2002075153
- OCLC
- 49952438
- SCSB-10459224
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library