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Sixteen Acres

Architecture and the Outrageous Struggle for the Future of Ground Zero

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Philip Nobel
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An edition of Sixteen acres (2004)

Sixteen Acres

Architecture and the Outrageous Struggle for the Future of Ground Zero

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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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Cover of: Sixteen acres
Sixteen acres: the outrageous struggle for the future of Ground Zero
2005, Metropolitan Books
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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
in English - 1st ed.
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Cover of: Sixteen Acres
Sixteen Acres
March 7, 2005, Granta Books
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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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Cover of: Sixteen acres
Cover of: Sixteen Acres
Sixteen Acres: Architecture and the Outrageous Struggle for the Future of Ground Zero
December 23, 2004, Metropolitan Books
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OL35901011M
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9781466827615

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