Power at Ground Zero politics, money, and the remaking of lower Manhattan
" 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 securit...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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New York
Oxford University Press
2016
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World Trade Center
> Geschichte
> SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban
> ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning
> ARCHITECTURE / General
> Stadtplanung
> September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001
> City planning
> Land use, Urban
> Public buildings
> Design and construction
> Economic assistance
> Elfter September
> Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)
> History
> New York, NY
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | " 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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| Beschreibung: | xviii, 901 Seiten, 16 ungezählte Seiten Bildtafeln Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karten |
| ISBN: | 9780190607029 978-0-19-060702-9 |