Main entry:

Goldberger, Paul.

Title & Author:

Up from zero : politics, architecture, and the rebuilding of New York / Paul Goldberger.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

New York, NY : Random House, ©2004.

Description:

xiv, 273 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-265) and index.
Architecture takes the stage -- Rockefeller's vision: the original World Trade Center -- Reclaiming the skyline: the decision to rebuild -- The future of memory: finding common ground for money and culture -- Listening to the city: what matters and who decides? -- Fitting it all on sixteen acres -- Boldness and vision: the public demands more -- The innovative design study -- Making things better: the city responds to the designs -- Architecture as democracy: building a consensus -- Libeskind and THINK: design gets personal -- The marriage of politics and building -- An unnatural hybrid: the collaboration of Childs and Libeskind -- The memorial competition -- Reflecting absence -- Commerce and culture at ground zero.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

Explores the struggle to rebuild the site at Ground Zero, offering a social, political, cultural, and architectural history of the World Trade Center and the artistic, financial, and emotional challenges of creating a design for the site.

Resources:
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Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

1400060176 (acid-free paper)
9781400060177 (acid-free paper)
081296795X (pbk.)
9780812967951

Subject:

World Trade Center (New York, N.Y.)
Architecture New York (State) New York History.
Memorials New York (State) New York Planning.
City planning New York (State) New York.
Architecture, Modern 21st century New York (State)
Memorials New York (State) New York.
Architecture New York (État) 21e siècle.
Monuments commémoratifs New York (État) New York.
Urbanisme New York (État) New York.
Architecture New York (État) New York Histoire.
Memorials
Architecture, Modern
Architecture
Buildings
City planning
Memorials Planning
Architektur
Stadtplanung
Wiederaufbau
Architecture New York (State) New York 21st century.
World Trade Center Site (New York, N.Y.)
New York (N.Y.) Buildings, structures, etc.
New York (N.Y.) Constructions.
New York (State)
New York (State) New York
New York (State) New York World Trade Center Site
World Trade Center
New York (N.Y.) World Trade Center.

Form/genre:

History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 234170
Call No.: NA6233.N5 W6745 2004
Status: Available