Forting Up the Skyline: Rebuilding at Ground Zero

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harvey Molotch
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
World Trade ◽  
World Trade Center ◽  
Political Authority ◽  
Market Forces ◽  
Security Measures ◽  
Ground Zero ◽  
The World ◽  
Trade Center

This chapter focuses on Ground Zero and the successive attempts to rebuild. It treats the replacement skyline of New York as a great mishap and wasted opportunity. Security measures display, on the ground, some rather new ways that political authority combines with market forces to shape the world. Although there were varied aesthetic and moral visions of what should happen at the site, the pugilist instinct predominated. Post-9/11 measures to protect the downtown called for not just any sort of buildings, but those that would show the enemy that we could build tall and powerful. The result is a different kind of building in the form of One World Trade Center, also known as “Freedom Tower.” It is argued that the “program” for the structure, still in another way, created vulnerabilities through misguided hardening up.

Oh Did You See the Ashes Come Thickly Falling Down?

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steve Zeitlin
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
World Trade ◽  
World Trade Center ◽  
Terrorist Attacks ◽  
New York University ◽  
Ground Zero ◽  
The World ◽  
Trade Center ◽  
Union Square ◽  
New Yorkers

This chapter considers the proliferation of street poems as a form of healing and remembrance after the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York City. In the days and weeks that followed the attack on the World Trade Center, the streets of New York lay eerily quiet and deserted. The poets did not wait for the dust to settle. As streams of water poured over the smoke at Ground Zero, distraught and bereaved New Yorkers scrawled missives in the ash. On the afternoon of the first day, Jordan Schuster, a student from New York University, laid out a sheet of butcher paper in Union Square; he was the first of many to inspire his fellow New Yorkers to set down their thoughts in poetry. Words proliferated into a barrage of written feeling that vented rage and offered solace. Street shrines served as portals for the living to talk directly to the terrorists.

Biomonitoring of Perfluorochemicals in Plasma of New York State Personnel Responding to the World Trade Center Disaster

2008 ◽  
Vol 42 (9) ◽  
pp. 3472-3478 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lin Tao ◽  
Kurunthachalam Kannan ◽  
Kenneth M. Aldous ◽  
Matthew P. Mauer ◽  
George A. Eadon
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
World Trade ◽  
World Trade Center ◽  
New York State ◽  
York State ◽  
World Trade Center Disaster ◽  
The World ◽  
Trade Center

Treating Survivors of the World Trade Center Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001

CNS Spectrums ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 7 (8) ◽  
pp. 611-615
Author(s):  
Robert Grossman ◽  
Rachel Yehuda
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Traumatic Stress ◽  
World Trade ◽  
Terrorist Attack ◽  
World Trade Center ◽  
September 11 ◽  
Terrorist Attacks ◽  
The World ◽  
Trade Center ◽  
New Yorkers

ABSTRACTAs part of an established traumatic stress research and treatment program located in New York City, we experienced the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center first as New Yorkers, but also as professionals with an interest in both treating the survivors and furthering scientific knowledge regarding the neurobiology and treatment of traumatic stress. This paper gives vignettes of calls to our program and the treatment of World Trade Center terrorist attack survivors.

Analysis of Aerosols from the World Trade Center Collapse Site, New York, October 2 to October 30, 2001

2004 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-183 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas A. Cahill ◽  
Steven S. Cliff ◽  
Kevin D. Perry ◽  
Michael Jimenez-Cruz ◽  
Graham Bench ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
World Trade ◽  
World Trade Center ◽  
The World ◽  
Trade Center

Ethical Issues in Secondary Uses of Human Biological Materials from Mass Disasters

2006 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 352-365 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bartha Maria Knoppers ◽  
Madelaine Saginur ◽  
Howard Cash
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
World Trade ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Terrorist Attack ◽  
World Trade Center ◽  
The Body ◽  
Dna Identification ◽  
The World ◽  
Trade Center ◽  
Mass Disasters

In the trauma surrounding mass disasters, the need to identify victims accurately and as soon as possible is critical. DNA identification testing is increasingly used to identify human bodies and remains where the deceased cannot be identified by traditional means. This form of testing compares DNA taken from the body of the deceased with DNA taken from their personal items (e.g. hairbrush, toothbrush etc.) or from close biological relatives. DNA identification testing was used to identify the victims of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York on September 11, 2001, and of the victims of the Tsunami that hit Asia on December 26, 2004. Shortly after the 9/11 attack, police investigators asked the victims' families for personal items belonging to the missing, and for DNA samples from family members themselves. The New York medical examiner's office coordinated the DNA identification testing program; however, some of the identification work was contracted out to private laboratories.

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