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The idea of the World Trade Center was first proposed in 1946 — for nearly 15 years it would remain exactly that — an idea.
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Guy Tozzoli helped pioneer the modern global trading economy — then oversee the creation of its greatest symbol and instrument, the World Trade Center.
The Center of the World: New York, A Documentary Film |
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I could secretly put my wire between the highest towers in the world. It was something that had to be done, and I couldn't explain it... it was a calling of the romantic type."
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The New York City that emerged from World War IIÂ was a dramatically different place than the city that had entered it four years before.
The Center of the World: New York, A Documentary Film |
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After a century of tumultuous change and growth, at the start of the 21st century New York remarkably had come to resemble nothing so much as New York at the start of the 20th  century.
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Here are some pioneering tall structures that changed the shape of Manhattan.
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The original plans for the World Trade Center, as proposed in the early 1960s, were different in many respects from the final scheme.
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This 1983 film features original footage of the towers under construction.
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Mike Wallace discusses the implications of a World Trade Center in New York City.
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Writer Pete Hamill talks about New York before, during, and after construction of the WTC.
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An interview with architectural historian Carol Willis for New York: Center of the World.
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An interview with the President of the World Trade Center Association, Guy Tozzoli.
