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Paul Goldberger

Up from Zero

Politics, Architecture, and the Rebuilding of New York

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In Up from Zero, Paul Goldberger, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, tells the inside story of the quest to rebuild one of the most important symbolic sites in the world, the sixteen acres where the towers of the former World Trade Center stood. A story of power, politics, architecture, community, and culture, Up from Zero takes us inside the controversial struggle to create and build one of the most challenging urban-design projects in history.What should replace the fallen towers? Who had the courage and vision to rise to the task of rebuilding? Who had the right, finally, to decide? The struggle began soon after September 11, 2001, as titanic e… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-8129-6795-1
  • EAN: 9780812967951
  • Produktnummer: 1730146
  • Verlag: Random House N.Y.
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
  • Seitenangabe: 320 S.

Über den Autor


Architectural critic for The New Yorker since 1997, PAUL GOLDBERGER spent more than twenty-five years at The New York Times, where he won the Pulitzer Prize. He is the recipient of numerous other awards, including the Medal of the American Institute of Architects. He is the author of several books, including The City Observed; The Skyscraper; On the Rise: Architecture and Design in a Postmodern Age; Houses of the Hamptons; Above New York; The World Trade Center Remembered; and, with Matteo Pericoli, Manhattan Unfurled. He appears frequently on film and television to discuss art, architecture, and cities, most recently in Ric Burns's epic New York: A Documentary Film, and in Ken Burns and Lynn Novick's Frank Lloyd Wright. He has taught at Yale and the University of California, Berkeley, and is currently dean of Parsons School of Design.Visit the author's website at www.paulgoldberger.com

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