Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Dedication; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; After the Fall; What Remains; First Response; The Center cannot Hold; A Plan for Downtown; Six Months; Thinking Inside the Box; Crossing the Site; The Dimensions of Aura; A Memorial; The World Peace Dome; Herbert's List; The Lotus; Security; A Brief for Reconstruction; Who Decides?; And then There were Two; In the End the Void; Back to Zero
Summary
Architect and social critic Michael Sorkin develops his own vision of the future lower Manhattan through a series of chronologically organized essays illustrated with full-color images of his own plans. Mixing his inimitable brand of social criticism with more personal reflections, Starting From Zero offers a striving challenge to the Ground Zero redevelopment plan recently chosen by New York's establishment insiders