Author
Endler; Tobias
Year
2011
Publisher
Verlag Barbara Budrich
Language
English
Pages
7
ISBN
978-3-86649-364-3
Last Update
03-Sep-2024
Keywords
Political Science
Rebuilding began only three days after the shock. With the ruins of the World Trade Center still burning, as they would continue to do for weeks after, and the smoldering rubble of what used to be the West’s most significant symbol of economic wealth strewn across lower Manhattan, the bulldozers took up their work. The scale of what had happened was not yet comprehensible. Still, the first traces of ‘Project Rebirth’ were already under way.¹ New York City, shaken by a terrorist attack of unprecedented magnitude, had been in a state of paralysis, but was far from dead, and began...
