Divided We Stand

Rising beside the Hudson River, the World Trade Center reshaped what an American city could be. Eric Darton follows the history of this costly complex, treating it as a window onto how urban life grew more concentrated and worldwide over the twentieth century.

Building on political, social and personal records, Darton writes what he presents as a new mixed form of architectural biography. The book examines how four unstable forces meet in modern cities: towers of extreme height, speculative finance, globalization and terrorism.