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American Experience: The Center of the World
Two  years after that fateful Tuesday morning, PBS remembers September 11, 2001 with a historical view of the conception, construction, and ultimate destruction of the World Trade Center. This eighth installment of the Ric Burns' series on New York takes you to post-WWII lower Manhattan, when the Rockefellers and other notable citizens championed the district as a golden door of economic opportunity and the place for America to mark its greatness with a "world trade center." As the city mapped and constructed its vision for "catalytic bigness," controversies and challenges arose. Scorned as an architectural bore (it was called "the largest aluminum siding job in history"), and plagued with financial insolvency, the completed Twin Towers silenced critics. The World Trade Center survived the national energy crisis to become the quintessential symbol of globalization. As we know, its loaded symbolism made it a target for terrorism. Yet two years later, Manhattan marches on, and the mighty profile that the Towers struck will never be forgotten. (in Architecture) |
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