Ebook: Power at Ground Zero: politics, money, and the remaking of lower Manhattan
- Tags: ARCHITECTURE--General, ARCHITECTURE--General--bisacsh, ARCHITECTURE--Urban et Land Use Planning, ARCHITECTURE--Urban et Land Use Planning--bisacsh, City planning, City planning--New York (State), Economic assistance, Economic assistance--New York (State)--New York, Elfter September, Land use Urban, Land use Urban--New York (State), Public buildings--Design and construction, Public buildings--New York (State)--Design and construction, September 11 Terrorist Attacks 2001, SOCIAL SCIENCE--Sociology--Urban, SOC
- Year: 2016
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- City: Manhattan (New York;N.Y.);New York (State);New York;Manhattan
- Language: English
- epub
"The destruction of the World Trade Center complex on 9/11 set in motion a chain of events that fundamentally transformed both the United States and the wider world. War has raged in the Middle East for a decade and a half, and Americans have become accustomed to surveillance, enhanced security, and periodic terrorist attacks. But the symbolic locus of the post-9/11 world has always been "Ground Zero" ... the sixteen acres in Manhattan's financial district where the twin towers collapsed. While idealism dominated in the initial rebuilding phase, interest-group trench warfare soon ensued.
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