Back up a little bit and talk about the location. How did the white house end up on this spot in washington, d. C. . Well, of course, it was part of the city plan that George Washington approved. It was made by la font, a very avantgarde plan. And it called for a palace, five times the size of this, and the cellars were dug because they were making bricks out of the clay. And washington relocated the house to put it on the axis. There were two axes, one running from the capitol down the mall and one running here. And it runs right through the house of the surveyors axes. And washington put it right on there so when he reduced the size of the house by a fifth, by four fif fourfifths, he wanted it to still be in the plan, as it was supposed to be, as one of the two great, important buildings in washington. We have to remember or remind our viewers that washington in his early career was a surveyor himself. So he really understood the importance of location. He did. And that was one of th
World trade center. Why, when, what the problems were. Elizabeth, welcome to after words. Thank guest great. Thank you. Great to be here. Host what motivated do you publish the book. To motivate and take the time for the research. What were the underlying reason you decided focus on the struggle to reconstruct the World Trade Center . Guest in the fall of 2001 i was a graduate student in philadelphia studying urban studies and anthropology. I was interested in cities. I had become i was becoming in interested in how cities reconstruct themselves after war, violence, and destruction. I was thinking about a project in berlin and studying what the city had done in the 90s after the wall came down. There were fascinating things they were doing to mark the wall and the different moment in history. I was putting together an independent study with a professor that fall, then 9 11 happened. It was incredibly powerful event. It was clear that so many things are going to be changing from that mo
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