Sixteen acres, architecture and the outrageous struggle for the future of Ground Zero, Philip Nobel
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Sixteen acres, architecture and the outrageous struggle for the future of Ground Zero, Philip Nobel
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-269) and index
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maps
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Sixteen acres
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
55955209
Responsibility statement
Philip Nobel
Sub title
architecture and the outrageous struggle for the future of Ground Zero
Summary
A look at the collision of interests behind the ambitious attempt to raise a new national icon at Ground Zero. Critic Philip Nobel strips away the hyperbole to reveal the secret life of the century's most charged building project. Providing a tally of deceptions and betrayals, a look at the meaning of events beyond the pieties of the moment, and a running bestiary of the main players--developers and bureaucrats, star architects and amateur fantasists, politicians and the well-spun press--Nobel's book bares the crucial moments as factions and institutions converge to create a noisy new culture at Ground Zero. Tragic and comic by turns, full of low dealings and high dudgeon, this book takes us behind the scenes at a site in search of its sanctity, exposing the reconstruction as the flawed product of a complicated city: driven by money, hamstrung by politics, burdened by the wounds it is somehow supposed to heal
Table Of Contents
First responders -- Our buildings, ourselves -- The cooperation of men -- Amateur hour -- Circus maximus -- Listening mode -- Star light, star bright -- Prime time -- When architects attack -- Show and tell -- The art of the possible -- So moved
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- Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) -- Buildings, structures, etc
- New York (N.Y.) -- Buildings, structures, etc
- Architecture -- New York (State) -- New York -- 21st century -- Designs and plans
- Architecture and society -- New York (State) -- New York
- City planning -- New York (State) -- New York
- World Trade Center Site (New York, N.Y.)
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- Creator1
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- Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) -- Buildings, structures, etc
- New York (N.Y.) -- Buildings, structures, etc
- Architecture -- New York (State) -- New York -- 21st century -- Designs and plans
- Architecture and society -- New York (State) -- New York
- City planning -- New York (State) -- New York
- World Trade Center Site (New York, N.Y.)
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