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| Author: |
Angus Kress Gillespie
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Rutgers University Press, 1999
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263 pages
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English
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978-0-813-52742-0
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| Reviewer: |
Jan Klerks, CTBUH Communications Manager/Journal Editor
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One journalist who did write about the towers prior to 9/11 was Angus Gillespie. Balancing between popular journalism and academic research, he penned his research and interpretations of it in a book called Twin Towers: The Life of New York City’s World Trade Center. The book gives a comprehensive description of all aspects of the Trade Center project, from the political motivation that lead to its construction, to the way architectural trends evolved in the seventies. It does a good job in describing much of the structural aspects of the towers. Gillespie turns out to be an admirer of the World Trade Center, tending to go soft on some of the problematic issues surrounding the project.