Up from Zero: Politics, Architecture, and the Rebuilding of New YorkIn 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 egos took sides, made demands, and jockeyed for power. Lawyers, developers, grieving families, local residents, politicians, artists, and architects all had fierce needs, radically different ideas, strong emotions, and boundless determination. How could conflicting interests be resolved? After hundreds of hours of often rancorous meetings, the first sets of plans were finally revealed in the summer of 2002–and the results were staggeringly disappointing. Yet, as Goldberger shows, the rebuilding process recovered and began to flourish. Rather than degenerating into turf wars, it evolved in ways that no one could have predicted. From the decision to reintegrate the site into the dense fabric of lower Manhattan, to the choice of Daniel Libeskind as master planner, to the appointment of a memorial jury, the process has been marked by moments of bold vision, effective community activism, and personal instinct, punctuating the often contentious politics of public participation. Up from Zero takes in the full sweep of this tremendous effort. Goldberger presents a drama of creative minds at work, solving seemingly insurmountable clashes of taste, interests, and ideas. With unique access to the players and the process, and with a sophisticated understanding of architecture and its impact on people and on the social and cultural life of a city, Paul Goldberger here chronicles the courage, the sacrifices, and the burning passions at the heart of one of the greatest efforts of urban revitalization in modern times. |
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... lease the twin towers to Larry Silverstein , a private real - estate de- veloper . So from the beginning , the governors of two states , a quasi- public bureaucracy , and a private businessman all had an interest in these sixteen acres ...
... lease the twin towers to Larry Silverstein , a private real - estate de- veloper . So from the beginning , the governors of two states , a quasi- public bureaucracy , and a private businessman all had an interest in these sixteen acres ...
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... lease on the origi- nal World Trade Center , had departed for lunch meetings uptown . Silverstein played a large public role in the days immediately fol- lowing September 11 and then had fallen somewhat from public view , but he always ...
... lease on the origi- nal World Trade Center , had departed for lunch meetings uptown . Silverstein played a large public role in the days immediately fol- lowing September 11 and then had fallen somewhat from public view , but he always ...
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Contents
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The Decision to Rebuild | 36 |
Finding Common | 52 |
What Matters | 63 |
Fitting It All on Sixteen Acres | 75 |
The Public Demands More | 93 |
The Innovative Design Study | 110 |
The Marriage of Politics and Building | 170 |
CHAPTER 13 | 185 |
CHAPTER 14 | 204 |
CHAPTER 15 | 219 |
CHAPTER 16 | 235 |
The Limits of Architecture | 249 |
Sources and Acknowledgments | 261 |
Index | 267 |
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Page 33 - It must be tall, every inch of it tall. The force and power of altitude must be in it, the glory and pride of exaltation must be in it. It must be every inch a proud and soaring thing, rising in sheer exaltation that from bottom to top it is a unit without a single dissenting line.
Page 8 - I arrived by ship to New York as a teenager, an immigrant, and like millions of others before me, my first sight was the Statue of Liberty and the amazing skyline of Manhattan. I have never forgotten that sight or what it stands for. This is what this project is all about.
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Page 174 - ... nevertheless lapses in both the dimension of the indeterminate and the spherical. This space of non-equilibrium, from which freedom eternally departs and toward which it moves without homecoming, constitutes a place in which architecture comes upon itself as beginning at the end.
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Page 28 - Row, which lay under the footprint of the proposed trade center. It was inconceivable to the Port Authority that there could be anything worth saving in this messy mix of old buildings. Sweeping away the old and providing a clean slate for the new was the highest and best calling of city planning, or so the Port Authority seemed to believe. The Port Authority was hardly alone.
Page 135 - One popular textbook defines successful urban planning as "public action that will produce a sustained and widespread private market reaction."29 The belief that planners should invest taxpayers...
Page 8 - ... bring these seemingly contradictory viewpoints into an unexpected unity. So, I went to look at the site, to stand within it, to see people walking around it, to feel its power and to listen to its voices. And this is what I heard, felt and saw. The great slurry wall is the most dramatic element which survived the attack, an engineering wonder constructed on bedrock foundations and designed to hold back the Hudson River. The foundations withstood the unimaginable trauma of the destruction and...