Title Power at ground zero : politics, money, and the remaking of lower Manhattan / Lynne B. Sagalyn

Published New York : Oxford University Press, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 901 pages) : illustrations, maps Contents COVER; POWER AT GROUND ZERO: POLITICS, MONEY, AND THE REMAKING OF LOWER MANHATTAN ; COPYRIGHT ; DEDICATION ; CONTENTS ; PROLOGUE; INSERTS; POWER AT GROUND ZERO PART I: PREDICATE TOACTION CHAPTER 1: Compelling Civic Mandates; ASSURING GLOBAL POSITION ; ASSERTING RESILIENCE ; REPAIRING THE FISCAL FALLOUT ; A SITE WITH HISTORY THE ARC OF REBUILDING CHAPTER 2: Clashing Private Ambitions; CAPTURING THE "PRIZE OF ALL PRIZES"; UNLOCKING AN AGGRESSIVE AGENDA ; FALLING OUT OF ALIGNMENT; A DYSFUNCTIONAL DOCUMENT ; CHAPTER 3: Commanding Political Opportunities THE STATE TAKES CHARGE WOUNDED POWER; RIVALS IN OPPORTUNITY; CHAPTER 4: Purse Power; MONEY FROM WASHINGTON ; TWO STATES IN THE BOARD ROOM; "PART EVENT, PART SYMBOL, AND ALL REAL ESTATE." PART II: TANGLED START(2001-2004) CHAPTER 5: "It's Our City"; HIVES OF ACTIVITY; WHAT ABOUT A SWAP? ; CONTENTION AHEAD; CHAPTER 6: "It's Our Site"; UNDERGROUND CONTROL; BUYOUTS AND PAYOUTS; NOT SO FAST; CHAPTER 7: Who's in Charge?; A FAILED BEGINNING Summary "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. Myriad battles involving all of the interests with a stake in that space-real estate interests, victims' families, politicians, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, the federal government, community groups, architectural firms, and a panoply of ambitious entrepreneurs grasping for pieces of the pie-raged for over a decade, and nearly fifteen years later there are still loose ends that need resolution. In Power at Ground Zero, Lynne Sagalyn offers the definitive account of one of the greatest reconstruction projects in modern world history. Sagalyn is America's most eminent scholar of major urban reconstruction projects, and this is the culmination of over a decade of research. Both epic in scope and granular in detail, this is at base a classic New York story. Sagalyn has an extraordinary command over all of the actors and moving parts involved in the drama: the long parade of New York and New Jersey governors involved in the project, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, various Port Authority leaders, the ubiquitous real estate magnate Larry Silverstein, and architectural superstars like Santiago Calatrava and Daniel Libeskind. As she shows, political competition at the local, state, regional, and federal level along with vast sums of money drove every aspect of the planning process. But the reconstruction project was always about more than complex real estate deals and jockeying among local politicians. The symbolism of the reconstruction extended far beyond New York and was freighted with the twin tasks of symbolizing American resilience and projecting American power. As a result, every aspect was contested. As Sagalyn points out, while modern city building is often dismissed as cold-hearted and detached from meaning, the opposite was true at Ground Zero. Virtually every action was infused with symbolic significance and needed to be debated. The emotional dimension of 9/11 made this large-scale rebuilding effort unique; it supercharged the complexity of the rebuilding process with both sanctity and a truly unique politics. Covering all of this and more, Power at Ground Zero is sure to stand as the most important book ever written on the aftermath of arguably the most significant isolated event in the post-Cold War era."-- Provided by publisher "In Power at Ground Zero, Lynne Sagalyn offers the definitive account of one of the greatest reconstruction projects in modern world history: the rebuilding of lower Manhattan after 9/11"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed Subject September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001. City planning -- New York (State) Land use, Urban -- New York (State) Public buildings -- New York (State) -- Design and construction Economic assistance -- New York (State) -- New York SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Urban. ARCHITECTURE -- Urban & Land Use Planning. ARCHITECTURE -- General. HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General. HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA) HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT) City planning Economic assistance Land use, Urban Public buildings -- Design and construction SUBJECT Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) -- History -- 21st century Subject New York (State) New York (State) -- New York New York (State) -- New York -- Manhattan Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2016027366 ISBN 9780190607036 0190607033 9780190607043 0190607041

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