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WORLD TRADE CENTER AND SEPTEMBER 11

Architectural Record's 1964 report on the final design of the World Trade Center
http://www.archrecord.com/WTC/archives.asp

This is a heavily illustrated piece on the architecture of the Trade Center twin towers. For the PDF version of the full two page report, go to:  http://www.archrecord.com/WTC/wtc1964.pdf.
(16 Oct 2002)

"The Biggest Foundation Ever"
http://www.newyorker.com/archive/content/?010924fr_archive02

Online version of a story by Edith Iglauer that appeared in The New Yorker, November 4, 1972, about the completion of the foundation of the World Trade Center Towers.
(16 Oct 2002)

H-Museum: September 11
http://www.h-net.org/~museum/september11.html

The H-Net list H-Museum has posted a collection of September 11 materials on the web, including: on-line exhibits; archival material; articles from print, radio and on-line media; and private memorial pages.
(10 Nov 2002)

Sonic Memorial Project
http://sonicmemorial.org/public/index.html

This site, organized by National Public Radio, is a national collaboration of NPR with WNYC, KQED, Picture Projects, dotsperinch, the September 11 Digital Archive Project, the Museum of Television and Radio, ABC News, transom.org, Creative Time, and more than 50 radio producers to solicit and make available in audio form recollections of September 11, 2001. The site is an access to the oral history NPR has accumulated, but it requires RealOne Player and Flash 6 software (available as free downloads) to hear or best view the full site.
(10 Sep 2002)

WTC Monument
http://www.skyscraper.org/exhibitions/wtc/

This online monument began as a cooperative gallery and online exhibit between the Skyscraper Museum and the New York Histocial Society (http://www.nyhistory.org/). Curated by Carol Willis of the Skyscraper Museum, this site of many images with text is a  "tribute to the Twin Towers, examining the history of the complex in its conception, design, and construction from the 1960s through the mid-1970s -- and their destruction on the morning of 9/11."
(16 Oct 2002)

Why the Towers Fell
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/wtc/

A companion to a PBS video by that name of the World Trade Center, this online exhibit contains videos, animations, interviews, reports, stunning photographs and illustratations, and a bibliography. Video clips and animations require special programs that are available for free.
(16 Oct 2002)

"Yamasaki's World Trade Center boasted an embattled, remarkable history"
http://www.archrecord.com/NEWS/ARTICLES/WTC_news/history.asp

This World Trade Center article by Kevin Lerner from the online archives of the Architectural Record (October, 2001) provides a few historical highlights of the towers.
(16 Oct 2002)

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WORLD TRADE CENTER AND SEPTEMBER 11: REBUILDING

The Civic Alliance: To Rebuild Downtown New York
http://www.rpa.org/civicalliance/

Website of the rebuilding efforts convened by the Regional Plan Association as the Civic Alliance.
(16 Oct 2002; 17 Nov 2004)

Imagine New York: The People's Visions: Summary Report
http://imagineny.org/resources/inysummaryreport.html

A compilation of ideas for rebuilding post-September 11 produced by the Municipal Art Society project "Imagine NY".
(16 Oct 2002)

Lower Manhatten Development Corp. (LMDC): Remember, Rebuild, Renew
http://www.renewnyc.org/index.shtml

The illustrated concept plans for rebuilding New York City after the September 11th attacks are located here, as well as informational news releases.
(16 Oct 2002)

New York New Visions: A Coalition for the Rebuilding of Lower Manhattan
http://www.nynv.aiga.org/index.shtml

The site has numerous reports and other background material, all in PDF format, on the planning and rebuilding of lower Manhattan and other areas of Metro New York. There is a bibliography of related articles.
(16 Oct 2002)

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