Our World Trade Centers ((4 Credits))

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The course focuses on the planning and building of two generations of the World Trade Center: the original twin towers and the new Freedom Tower complex. How did these extraordinary feats of engineering and construction grow out of Lower Manhattan, once a great port and epicenter of global finance? And what can these towers - built on a site where natural forces and human conflict repeatedly intersect - tell us about the history and possible futures of the city our labor makes real? It is also only offered in-class at the college’s Harry J. Van Arsdale Jr. School for Labor Studies in New York City.