Research Catalog

Title

Sixteen acres : architecture and the outrageous struggle for the future of Ground Zero / Philip Nobel.

Author

Nobel, Philip.

Publication

New York : Metropolitan Books, 2005.

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Details

Description

288 p. : a map; 22 cm.

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.

Subjects

• City planning > New York (State) > New York
• World Trade Center Site (New York, N.Y.)
• Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) > Buildings, structures, etc
• New York (N.Y.) > Buildings, structures, etc
• Architecture > New York (State) > New York > 21st century
• Architecture and society > New York (State) > New York

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [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.

Call Number

IRGC 05-3448

ISBN

0805074945

LCCN

2004055239

OCLC

55955209

Author

Nobel, Philip.

Title

Sixteen acres : architecture and the outrageous struggle for the future of Ground Zero / Philip Nobel.

Imprint

New York : Metropolitan Books, 2005.

Edition

1st ed.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-269) and index.

Research Call Number

IRGC 05-3448

JSD 10-509