Nilda Whitsitt's blog ::UMN Intl: Mosque near Ground Zero of the former World Trade Centre New York USA
I was up to my typical commercial trolling watching advertisements from such radio stations as WBLS, WABC and of course those old Crazy Eddie commercials when I came across an ad for the World Trade Center Observation Deck. The commercial starts off at the base of the twin towers, then pans up to the sky and shows a couple visiting New York for the first time, getting off at the observation deck and seeing New York "the way only fliers" were accustomed to. Only from the observation deck could you see the entire tri-state area, was the implication, and in what must have been 1980, (could have been later just felt like it must have been 1980) the 10 year old towers were still in their adolescence; while there was a lot of controversy surrounding them, they still offered yet another magical gem that is the genius of urban planning in New York. It isn't that New York has the high buildings, or it's urban density that makes it so great; plenty of other cities around the world dwarf New York City in population and it's urban density pales in comparison to other metropolitan areas, but the straightforward beauty of the way the urban landscape has taken place that makes it great. What other city has the Brooklyn Bridge, the tri-state area, an extensive subway system that makes use of tunnels and bridges almost exclusively, never to see the ground, and of course Central Park? What other city has Park Avenue, Chinatown, the Garment District, 7th Avenue and of course Times Square, 42nd? Every city has it's own unique identity, and while other cities have tall buildings, cities like New York, Chicago, L.A., Atlanta, have their own unique identity, their own feel that separates them from other cities. The commercial is very, very eerie; in fact the idea that 30 years after the fact, when the novelty of the Twin Towers should have passed, advertisers were still using every opportunity to include the Twin Towers in at least one frame of the commercial is a testament to the relationship that everyone had with them. You were hard pressed to find a movie that didn't make some use of the sheer presence of the Twin Towers somehow; if you were from New York, and they weren't in the shot, you knew when they were somewhere close by. Take a look at the "banned" trailer for Spiderman, which was taken out of circulation in the U.S. and tell me you cannot get a feel for the convoluted relationship America had with the building. The trailer culminates in the apprehension of a helicopter used in the robbery being suspended between the towers, which was genius, and one of the better uses of the towers, yet they wouldn't show it for obvious reasons. I'm not entirely sure it would have been as disturbing as they thought though, I am not saddened seeing this, a bit intrigued even. The towers were supposed to be an architectural statement about what happens when capitalism works, as well as a statement about the success of the U.S. in general, for that time. Yet in a short period of time, 31 years, the towers were destroyed; the irony of which can be found in some advertisements that were still running all the way up to the date that it happened, in fact you can find, if you look hard enough, a commercial that shows a plane crashing through a building advertising what seems to be a German access code for cheap long distance. It seems to be a coincidence, and yet it reminds me how many other times the idea of running an airplane through a building, without consequences, seemed to be the norm in those days. The World Trade Center had become synonymous with New York City and an easy way to describe it, for better or worse. Those towers oversimplified the aspect of tall buildings in New York City and what they meant to the identity of the city, and served as a metaphor to the rest of the world as to what the United States was about. In fact, were it not for the WTC, would the rest of the world have been inclined to build skyscrapers that now dwarf what the Trade Center would have been if it were still standing today? Almost every democratic nation has a tall building that in some ways serves to make that same statement that the Trade Center did here in America. Ironically, my obsession with the late seventies and eighties; the innocence, the freedom, the simplicity, ended with the trailer of Spiderman. Quite honestly, after getting past the Y2K bug I felt as though we were invincible, untouchable, and that life would continue on the way that it did. I just assumed that the 21st century would be an extension of the nineties the way previous generations ushered in a slow transition for years, with the exception of perhaps the sixties, but that was before my time. They will eventually build the Freedom Towers, and incorporate greenspace into the design of the site, which you couldn't have done when the towers were originally built because that aesthetic was so anti-New York. Though these days times have changed, greenspace is more of a priority because of the way that the environment has changed and while it will not totally transform the landscape of New York the idea of menancing, almost anti-human buildings that created the visceral response in some idealists will not be duplicated. I have mixed feelings about this new design; I can understand the arguments behind both the reasons to come up with a totally new design and the need to duplicate what was there before, to resist change. That isn't what really affects me at the end of the day though; if the Freedom Tower is the 2.0 version of the WTC, serving a different function and forcing us to let go of what was futuristic in the seventies, I don't know; I just wish that thousands of people did not have to die in the process, and that it was a decision we could have made on our own, though regrettably, one that no one is really ready to make as well as one you can never prepare for ... |
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