| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
288 pages : map ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-269) and index. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
World Trade Center Site (New York, N.Y.)
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Architecture -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 21st century -- Designs and plans.
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Architecture. |
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New York (State) -- New York. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
21st century |
| Genre/Form |
Architectural drawings.
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| Subject |
City planning -- New York (State) -- New York.
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City planning. |
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Architecture and society -- New York (State) -- New York.
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Architecture and society. |
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New York (N.Y.) -- Buildings, structures, etc.
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National Book Committee. |
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Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) -- Buildings, structures, etc.
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| Genre/Form |
Architectural drawings.
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| ISBN |
0805074945 |
| Standard No. |
9780805074949 |
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