Copyright Fabrizio Botta, 2007, Paris, France
“The notion that someday nature could swallow whole something so colossal and concrete as a modern city doesn’t slide easily into out our imaginations. The sheer titanic presence of a New York City resists efforts to picture it wasting away. The events of September 2001 showed only what human beings with explosive hardware can do, not crude processes like erosion or rot. The breathtaking swift collapse of the World Trade Center towers suggested more to us about their attackers than about mortal vulnerabilities that could doom our entire infrastructure. And even that once-inconceivable calamity was confined to just few buildings. Nevertheless, the time it would take nature to rid itself of what urbanity has wrought may less than we might suspect”.
The world without us, ALAN WEISMAN, 2007
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