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Author Goldberger, Paul.

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

Publication Info. New York, NY : Random House, [2004]
©2004

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Location Call No. Status
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  725.23 GOL    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  725.23 G56    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description xiv, 273 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Note Includes index.
Contents 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.
Subject Architecture as Topic -- New York (State) -- New York -- 21st century.
Memorials -- New York (State) -- New York -- Planning.
City planning -- New York (State) -- New York.
World Trade Center Site (New York, N.Y.)
New York (N.Y.) -- Buildings, structures, etc.
ISBN 1400060176
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