22 JANUARY, 2004
The authors of a new book on the World Trade Center, Eric Lipton and James Glanz, New York Times reporters and co-authors of "City in the Sky" will be speaking at NYU Wagner on what can be learned from the rise and fall of the World Trade Center.
The talk will be held Thursday, Jan. 29, 2004 from 8pm - 9:30pm at the Kimball Lounge, 246 Greene Street at Waverly Place. Please RSVP to todd.rufo@nyu.edu as space is limited.
Building big in New York City is never an easy task. And in the history of the city, there has never been a bigger project than the World Trade Center. As we move toward rebuilding downtown, Glanz and Lipton analyze what we can learn from the planning and development of the World Trade Center. They will discuss the conflicts that arose when the World Trade Center was planned, with City Hall and with the commercial district, called Radio Row, that had to be bulldozed to make way for the twin towers. We will look at how attitudes about urban planning have changed since the 1960's and the implications that stem from the rebuilding of the World Trade Center site for Lower Manhattan and the city at large.
The Speakers: James Glanz is a science reporter for The New York Times and has a doctorate from the Astrophysical Sciences Department at Princeton University, where he did his research at the Plasma Physics Laboratory. In 1991, he joined the staff of the magazine R&D, moving to Science magazine in 1995 and The Times four years later. His first book, Saving Our Soil: Solutions for Sustaining Earth's Vital Resource, drew upon both his technical background and his childhood in Iowa. On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, before either of the twin towers had fallen, he was given the assignment of understanding and reporting on their structure. He has been covering the story ever since.
Eric Lipton has been a Metropolitan reporter at The New York Times since November 1999. In his first two years at The Times, he was based in City Hall and covered Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani and city affairs. But after Sept. 11th, he was removed from the City Hall beat to write about the attack on the World Trade Center and its aftermath. Prior to joining The New York Times, Mr. Lipton spent five years at The Washington Post, writing about the end of Marion Barry's tenure and the arrival of Mayor Anthony Williams, among other matters. From 1989 to 1994, he worked at The Hartford Courant. While at The Courant, Mr. Lipton and a second Courant reporter won the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for explanatory journalism for their stories about the flaw in the main mirror of the Hubble Space Telescope. Mr. Lipton started his daily newspaper career in 1987 at a small New Hampshire paper, The Valley News. He graduated from the University of Vermont, with majors in philosophy and history.
For a complete list of UPSA activites for January and February go to: http://wagner.nyu.edu/urban.planning/.