scholarly journals Strange Topography: Globalization at Ground Zero

E-Compós ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vincent Mosco
Keyword(s):  
World Trade ◽  
World Trade Center ◽  
Ground Zero ◽  
Trade Center

Este artigo, baseado na palestra de abertura da Conferência da Associação Canadense de Comunicação, na cidade de Toronto, em 2006, discute a interação entre globalização e cidades, tendo como exemplo principal a trajetória do World Trade Center em Manhattan, desde o seu planejamento no início dos anos sessenta, até as suas tentativas de reconstrução nos dias de hoje. O mito de uma globalização positiva com todas as suas contradições, e os perigos apresentados por projetos pós-industriais para a paisagem urbana, são explorados por meio de análises críticas da “revolução digital” de Negroponte, sua conexão com religiões fundamentalistas, assim como as questões políticas e econômicas envolvendo o desenvolvimento do Baixo Manhattan após a Segunda Guerra Mundial.

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.

scholarly journals Case Report: A World Trade Center (WTC) responder presenting with moderate stage dementia by age 57, suggesting an extended severity of WTC-associated illness'

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sam Gandy ◽  
H Allison Bender ◽  
Roberto Luccini ◽  
Theophania Ashleigh ◽  
Julie Ciardullo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
World Trade ◽  
Medical Center ◽  
World Trade Center ◽  
Clinical Syndrome ◽  
Etiologic Agent ◽  
Central Feature ◽  
Ground Zero ◽  
Early Onset Dementia ◽  
Increased Risk ◽  
Trade Center

Abstract Recent evidence indicates that World Trade Center Responders (WTCRs) are apparently at increased risk for a clinical syndrome that includes PTSD (posttraumatic stress disorder) and MCI (mild cognitive impairment). The association of these behavioral and cognitive symptoms was first described by Bromet, Luft, Clouston, and colleagues. No autopsy characterization of the syndrome has yet emerged, though biofluid and neuroimaging biomarker data support features of (1) progressive behavioral and cognitive dysfunction, (2) proteinopathy involving the appearance of neurodegeneration-related molecules in the peripheral circulation, and (3) a substantial regional loss of brain volume. Inciting factors such as inhalation of neurotoxins and/or psychological stressors (or a combination of both) have been proposed as contributory to the pathogenesis, but no definitive etiologic agent has been identified. In general, the subpopulation of WTCRs who developed PTSD and MCI were those with documentable extended exposure to the central feature of “Ground Zero” known as “the pile”, and those who developed MCI were primarily a subgroup of those who had developed PTSD. Multiomic studies are underway to determine whether this subgroup might be enriched for genetic, genomic, and/or proteomic features that might have predisposed them to pathological responses to stress, environmental toxins, or both. In 2017, we had occasion to evaluate “E.T.”; at that time, a 57-year-old bilingual (English and Spanish speaking) right-handed WTCR was referred to an urban medical center dementia specialty clinic for assessment of his cognitive and behavioral functioning. While early-onset dementia can occur sporadically, the proximity of E.T. to “the pile” at “Ground Zero”, and the course of E.T.’s illness raise the possibility that WTC-related cognitive-behavioral syndromes may progress well beyond the stage of MCI to that of moderate dementia (and beyond) and that this progression may occur in the absence of full-blown PTSD.

scholarly journals Do Pruitt-Igoe ao World Trade Center: planejando a ex/implosão do (pós)modernismo

2003 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 9
Author(s):  
Clara Irazábal
Keyword(s):  
World Trade ◽  
World Trade Center ◽  
Project Planning ◽  
Modern Architecture ◽  
Housing Project ◽  
Ground Zero ◽  
The World ◽  
Trade Center ◽  
Modern Thinking

O artigo discute, em meio a conceitos de pós-modernidade, as semelhanças na destruição de dois marcos da arquitetura moderna: o conjunto residencial Pruitt-Igoe (PI) e o World Trade Center (WTC). Argumenta que a destruição, tanto do PI como do WTC, deveu-se não apenas à questão física (no PI, uma destruição planejada pela sociedade, e no WTC, uma destruição por ela não planejada); pelo contrário, a queda de ambos os edifícios seria uma materialização do fim do pensamento modernista, do qual seriam símbolos. Contrariamente ao que foi dito a respeito do 11/09/2001, propõe que naquela hora o mundo já havia mudado e que a destruição do WTC foi apenas a representação da mudança. Seguindo essa argumentação, o artigo propõe inovações no campo do planejamento e da arquitetura, assim como novas concepções para espaços contemporâneos, a exemplo dos projetos do novo WTC.Palavras-chave: arquitetura moderna; pós-modernidade; Pruitt-Igoe; World Trade Center. Abstract: This article proposes, amidst post modernity concepts, the resemblance between the destruction of two major symbols of modern planning and architecture: the Pruitt-Igoe (PI) housing project and the World Trade Center (WTC). The author states that both events were not only physical (the PI implosion having been a planned event in contrast to the unplanned WTC destruction) but also the materialization of the fall of the modern thinking embodied in them. Contrary to most ideas, the author proposes that by 09/11 the world had already changed, and the WTC destruction only represented that change. Along with these arguments, the author also proposes a series of changes in the planning and architectural fields, as well as new conceptions towards contemporary project planning, such as the projects for Ground Zero. Keywords: modern architecture; post-modernity; Pruitt-Igoe; World Trade Center.

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.

“Shielding Us from What We Are Not Yet Ready To See”

2020 ◽  
pp. 29-64
Author(s):  
Glen Donnar
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
World Trade ◽  
World Trade Center ◽  
Male Identity ◽  
Ground Zero ◽  
Port Authority ◽  
Male Characters ◽  
Trade Center ◽  
Mine Accident ◽  
Professional Capacity

This chapter examines direct representations of being caught inside terror. Concentrating on Oliver Stone’s 9/11disaster-melodrama World Trade Center (2006), it demonstrates how the eclipse of professional capacity and mobility, focused on Port Authority officers entrapped at “Ground Zero”, profoundly destabilizes male identity. A sub-generic mid-film shift from “disaster epic” to “mine accident” movie seeks to contain (this) terror, making space for the trapped officers’ symbolic restoration to the home as husband-fathers. This recuperation is undercut by subsequent, idealized returns to uniformed “protective” roles by rescuers, which remasculinizes American manhood (and national identity). The chapter finally argues that these already ambivalent recoveries are irretrievably overwhelmed by numerous gaping absences that conclude the film, including of the frighteningly unspecified “terror-Other” attackers. The chapter also examines the imagined experience onboard United Flight 93 in United 93 (2006) and the ambivalent association of male characters with the Twin Towers in 25th Hour (2002).

scholarly journals Ground Zero comme spectacle

2006 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-108
Author(s):  
Alan Blum
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
World Trade ◽  
World Trade Center ◽  
Ground Zero ◽  
Mode De Vie ◽  
Trade Center

Résumé Le discours sur la globalisation avance que l’identité locale est de plus en plus menacée par la similarité croissante qui s’établit entre les villes, contribuant à uniformiser leur apparence jusqu’à les rendre indifférenciables les unes des autres. Une des fonctions (ou une des conséquences non anticipées) de cette menace est de dramatiser la question de l’identité elle-même, et va jusqu’à mettre en cause son caractère illusoire et désuet. Si l’« identité » fait référence à la différence que fait un lieu, ce qui semble se perdre, toujours selon cette perspective, c’est la différence elle-même. La valeur d’usage des villes apparaît de plus en plus être confondue par une conception de leur valeur d’échange. Cela signifie que si la globalisation tend à nous faire traiter de l’identité d’une ville comme New York comme d’une ville globale (comme le centre du capitalisme), l’identité devient simultanément une « variable » liée à une norme qui sanctionne des visions génériques de l’identité urbaine. En formant ce spectre, la globalisation tend aussi à nous faire réfléchir l’identité comme quelque chose de plus que cela, comme partie prenante d’une dynamique et du détail local d’un lieu (dans ce cas-ci, New York) comme expression de l’accent spécifique que met une ville sur ce que Louis Wirth a appelé un « mode de vie urbain ». Le site de Ground Zero fait apparaître et spectacularise les limites de la notion de ville globale en tant qu’identité, non pas en lui substituant une identité autre dans un processus infini, mais en révélant, comme tout travail présuppose dans le cas d’une telle caractérisation générique, une référence implicite et inédite à un système de désir. Dans les termes de la sociologie, ceci fait référence à la ville en tant que situation d’action. Affronter ce problème de la reconstruction à New York signifie alors faire face au problème de recréer le désir selon des modes beaucoup plus profonds que la simple restauration économique. Dans ce sens, l’attaque du World Trade Center soulève la vieille question de la différence entre urbanisation et urbanité, et celle de la manière par laquelle l’identité, comme problème collectif, est constamment retravaillée dans un tel lieu. La reconstruction de Ground Zero révèle les débats au sujet de la différence de New York comme ville.

scholarly journals Otolaryngologic Symptoms in Persons Exposed to World Trade Center Dust and Particle Pollutants: A Case for Caution in Declaring a Diagnosis of Wtc Syndrome

2009 ◽  
Vol 88 (8) ◽  
pp. 1067-1073
Author(s):  
Swapna K. Chandran ◽  
Mary J. Hawkshaw ◽  
Robert T. Sataloff
Keyword(s):  
World Trade ◽  
World Trade Center ◽  
Long Term Effects ◽  
Ground Zero ◽  
Considerable Research ◽  
Comprehensive Examination ◽  
Lower Manhattan ◽  
Trade Center ◽  
Cleanup Workers

Since the Sept. 11, 2001, attack on the World Trade Center (WTC), the health status of survivors, rescue and cleanup workers, and residents of Lower Manhattan has been monitored. Exposure to dust and particulate matter resulted in numerous complaints of both upper and lower aerodigestive tract irritation. The symptoms, diagnoses, and management of affected persons have previously been described in the literature. However, evidence establishing causation is scarce, especially with regard to the purported long-term effects of such exposure. Many persons who were exposed to the Ground Zero site have otolaryngologic conditions that are common in persons who were not so exposed. Therefore, otolaryngologists involved in the care of such patients should be cautious about assigning a diagnosis of “WTC syndrome” without a comprehensive examination to look for other possible etiologies. A diagnosis of a treatable, potentially serious health problem should not be missed simply because a patient who was exposed to WTC irritants was presumed to have WTC syndrome. In this review, we discuss the reported otolaryngologic manifestations of exposure to the WTC site, and we describe the specific cases of 2 workers there who continue to have otolaryngologic complaints. Considerable research is needed to establish the existence and nature of any long-term sequelae of exposure to WTC fallout.

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