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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465571303321

Titolo

After the World Trade Center [[electronic resource] ] : rethinking New York City / / Michael Sorkin and Sharon Zukin, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Routledge, 2012

ISBN

0-203-72440-2

1-299-28830-8

1-135-77488-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (249 p.)

Collana

Cultural Spaces

Altri autori (Persone)

SorkinMichael

ZukinSharon

Disciplina

711/.4/097471

Soggetti

City planning - New York (State) - New York

September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001

Electronic books.

New York (N.Y.) History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published in 2002.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; After the World Trade Center: RETHINKING NEW YORK CITY; Copyright; CONTENTS; Introduction; 1 When Bad Buildings Happen to Good People; 2 Our World Trade Center; 3 Manhattan at War; 4 Whose Downtown?!?; 5 The First Wall Street Bomb; 6 Cracks in the Edifice of the Empire State; 7 Insecurity by Design; 8 The Janus Face of Architectural Terrorism: Minoru Yamasaki, Mohammed Atta, and Our World Trade Center; 9 Scales of Terror: The Manufacturing of Nationalism and the War for U.S. Globalism; 10 Meditations on a Wounded Skyline and Its Stratigraphies of Pain; 11 The Odor of Publicity

12 Letter to a G-Man13 From Jackson Heights to Nuestra America: 9/11 and Latino New York; 14 What Kind of Planning After September 11? The Market, the Stakeholders, Consensus-or...?; 15 Spaces of Reflection, Recovery, and Resistance: Reimagining the Postindustrial Plaza; 16 A Time for Transportation Strategy; 17 Enduring Innocence; 18 The Center Cannot Hold; 19 New York, New Deal; ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

The terrorist attacks of September 11 have created an unprecedented



public discussion about the uses and meanings of the central area of lower Manhattan that was once the World Trade Center. While the city sifts through the debris, contrary forces shaping its future are at work. Developers jockey to control the right to rebuild ""ground zero."" Financial firms line up for sweetheart deals while proposals for memorials are gaining in appeal. In After the World Trade Center, eminent social critics Sharon Zukin and Michael Sorkin call on New York's most acclaimed urbanists to consider th