After the World Trade Center: Rethinking New York City (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. When bad buildings happen to good people / Marshall Berman Our World Trade Center / Sharon Zukin Manhattan at war / Edwin G. Burrows Whose downtown?!? / John Kuo Wei Tchen The first Wall Street bomb / Beverly Gage Cracks in the edifice of the Empire State / David Harvey Insecurity by design / Mark Wigley The Janus face of architectural terrorism : Minoru Yamasaki, Mohammed Atta, and our World Trade Center / Eric Darton Scales of terror : the manufacturing of nationalism and the war for U.S. globalism / Neil Smith Meditations on a wounded skyline and its stratigraphies of pain / M. Christine Boyer The odor of publicity / Andrew Ross Letter to a G-man / Moustafa Bayoumi From Jackson Heights to Nuestra America : 9/11 and Latino New York / Arturo Ignacio Sánchez What kind of planning after September 11? The market, the stakeholders, consensus-or ...? / Peter Marcuse Spaces of reflection, recovery, and resistance : reimagining the postindustrial plaza / Setha M. Low A time for transportation strategy / Robert Paaswell Enduring innocence / Keller Easterling The center cannot hold / Michael Sorkin New York, new deal / Mike Wallace. Essays consider the recovery of lower Manhattan after the destruction of the World Trade Center, looking back on New York's position as a financial and cultural capital and examining the forces that will shape the future of the World Trade Center site. Michael Sorkin And Sharon Zukin, Editors. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.