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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.
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Architecture, Architecture and society, Architecture et société, Buildings, structures, City planning, Constructions, Designs and plans, Dessins et plans, Urbanisme, History, Current events, Architecture, united states, City planning, united states, New york (n.y.), buildings, structures, etc., BuildingsPlaces
Manhattan (New York, N.Y.), New York, New York (N.Y.), New York (State), New York (État), World Trade Center Site (New York, N.Y.)Times
21e siècle, 21st centuryShowing 7 featured editions. View all 7 editions?
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Sixteen Acres: Architecture and the Outrageous Struggle for the Future of Ground Zero
December 27, 2005, Holt Paperbacks
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0805080023 9780805080025
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Sixteen acres: architecture and the outrageous struggle for the future of Ground Zero
2005, Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Co., Metropolitan Books
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0805074945 9780805074949
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Sixteen acres: the outrageous struggle for the future of Ground Zero
2005, Metropolitan Books
in English
0805074945 9780805074949
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Sixteen acres: the rebuilding of the World Trade Center site
2005, Granta
in English
1862077134 9781862077133
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Sixteen Acres: Architecture and the Outrageous Struggle for the Future of Ground Zero
2005, Holt & Company, Henry
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1466827610 9781466827615
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Sixteen Acres: Architecture and the Outrageous Struggle for the Future of Ground Zero
December 23, 2004, Metropolitan Books
Hardcover
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0805074945 9780805074949
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