After the World Trade Center

Rethinking New York City
Erscheinungsjahr 2002
ISBN: 978-0-415-93479-4
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 518 g

Reihe: Cultural Spaces

The terrorist attacks of September 11 have created an unprecedented public discussion about the uses and meanings of the central area of lower Manhattan that was once the World Trade Center. While the city sifts through the debris, contrary forces shaping its future are at work. Developers jockey to control the right to rebuild "ground zero." Financial firms line up for sweetheart deals while proposals for memorials are gaining in appeal. In After the World Trade Center, eminent social critics Sharon Zukin and Michael Sorkin call on New York's most acclaimed urbanists to consider the impact of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center and what it bodes for the future of New York. Contributors take a close look at the reaction to the attack from a variety of New York communities and discuss possible effects on public life in the city.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sorkin, Michael

Zukin, Sharon

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Gewalt Terrorismus, Religiöser Fundamentalismus
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Regional- & Raumplanung Stadtplanung, Kommunale Planung
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Städtebau, Stadtplanung (Architektur)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1.Michael Sorkin and Sharon Zukin, Introduction 2. Marshall Berman, When Bad Buildings Happen to Good People 3.Sharon Zukin, Our World Trade Center 4.Edwin G. Burrows,Manhattan at War 5.John Kuo Wei Tchen,Whose Downtown?!? 6.Beverly Gage The First Wall Street Bomb 7.David Harvey, Cracks in the Edifice of the Empire State 8.Mark Wigley,Insecurity By Design 9.Eric Darton, The Janus Face of Architectural Terrorism 10.Neil Smith,Scales of Terror 11.M. Christine Boyer, The Wounded Skyline, 12.Andrew Ross,The Odor of Publicity 13.Moustafa Bayoumi,Letter to a G-Man 14.Arturo Ignacio Sanchez,From Jackson Heights to Nuestra America 15.Peter Marcuse,What Type of Planning After September 11? 16.Setha Low, Spaces of Reflection, Recovery, and Resistance 17. Robert Paaswell,A Time for Transportation Strategy 18.Keller Easterling,Enduring Innocence 19.Michael Sorkin,The Center Cannot Hold 20.Mike Wallace, New York, New Deal About the Contributors

Über Autor(innen)

Michael Sorkin is principal of the Michael Sorkin Studio and director of the graduate urban design program at New York's City College. He is the author of Other Plans (2002), The Next Jerusalem (2002), Some Assembly Required (2001), Giving Ground (co-edited with Joan Copjec, 1999), Wiggle (1998), Exquisite Corpse (1994), Local Code (1993), and Variations on a Theme Park (edited, 1991). He also contributes to the New York Times Magazine, among other publications. Sharon Zukin is Professor of Sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center and Broeklundian Professor of Sociology at Brooklyn College. She is the author of The Cultures of Cities (1995), Landscapes of Power (winner of the C. Wright Mills Award, 1991), Structures of Capital (co-edited with Paul DiMaggio, 1990), and Loft Living (1982).