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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Michael Sorkin , Sharon ZukinPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.620kg ISBN: 9780415934794ISBN 10: 0415934796 Pages: 248 Publication Date: 19 April 2002 Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Tertiary & Higher Education , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsThe contributors read like a who's who of progressive Manhattan. <br>-The San Francisco Chronicle <br> After the World Trade Center... is a rare and unflinching lesson book on New York among the truckloads of books emerging with the anniversary of the attacks. Michael Sorkin, arguably America's most provocative architecture critic, edited the book along with sociology professor Sharon Zukin... As a whole, the book offers and unapologetic, left-of-center viewpoint. But its mining of Manhattan's deep past and often ironic present offers some important insights for the city's future. <br>-The Oregonian <br> vividly of a moment, capturing on paper what hovers in the air...And that's the value of After the World Trade Center: It shows how, as New York faces a challenge once inconceivable, the people who love it are fearful that belligerent panic will trample deeper issues and needs.. <br>-San Francisco Chronicle <br> Global and local in outlook, reaching beyond the personal-tragedy, American-values perspective that has dominated the media, this thoughtful volume is not just for New Yorkers.. <br>-Booklist <br> [A] singularly politically incorrect radical rethinking of the whole event and the great city in which it happened...one of the most provocative and perhaps most important books yet to come out of the event.. <br>-The Buffalo News <br> """The contributors read like a who's who of progressive Manhattan."" -- The San Francisco Chronicle ""After the World Trade Center... is a rare and unflinching lesson book on New York among the truckloads of books emerging with the anniversary of the attacks. Michael Sorkin, arguably America's most provocative architecture critic, edited the book along with sociology professor Sharon Zukin... As a whole, the book offers and unapologetic, left-of-center viewpoint. But its mining of Manhattan's deep past and often ironic present offers some important insights for the city's future."" -- The Oregonian ""vividly of a moment, capturing on paper what hovers in the air...And that's the value of After the World TradeCenter: It shows how, as New York faces a challenge once inconceivable, the people who love it are fearful that belligerent panic will trample deeper issues and needs."" -- San Francisco Chronicle ""Global and local in outlook, reaching beyond the personal-tragedy, American-values perspective that has dominated the media, this thoughtful volume is not just for New Yorkers."" -- Booklist ""[A] singularly politically incorrect radical rethinking of the whole event and the great city in which it happened...one of the most provocative and perhaps most important books yet to come out of the event."" -- The Buffalo News ""After the World Trade Center... is a rare and unflinching lesson book on New York among the truckloads of books emerging with the anniversary of the attacks. Michael Sorkin, arguably America's most provocative architecture critic, edited the book along with sociology professor Sharon Zukin.As a whole, the book offers an unapologetic, left-of-center viewpoint. But its mining of Manhattan's deep past and often ironic present offers some important insights for the city's future."" -- Portland Oregonian" The reaction after the atrocity of September 11 for many Americans - particularly New Yorkers - was to mourn the destruction of the Twin Towers themselves along with the shocking loss of life. The immediate call was for architects, city planners and private finance to build in their place something that would be bolder, better - even bigger - than the WTC, something to show the rest of the world that the United States would not be defeated. Slowly, however, commentators have come to question the merits of the Towers, and to wonder whether it is appropriate to replace like with like. It is true that they were immediately recognizable icons of the city, famous the world over, yet the 16-acre site was not popular with all New Yorkers. For example, the historic Syrian quarter of narrow streets and neighbourhood shops was bulldozed in the late 1950s to make way for this monument to global capitalism, whose windswept plazas were no substitute for the public spaces that they replaced. Here, 17 of New York's best urbanists, while stressing that re-evaluating the benefits of the WTC should not be equated with a lack of patriotism, try to find a way forward for their beloved city, considering New York's history, political landscape and architectural aesthetics in a collection of thought-provoking and insightful essays. John Kuo Wei Tchen examines the territorial battles for the downtown area that have taken place over the centuries, from the war of attrition by the Dutch against the local Native American tribes in the 17th century, through the dispossession of the black, and then the Chinese, communities in the 19th century, and culminating in the dispersal of Little Syria; Beverly Gage tells the story of the Wall Street bomb planted by anarchists in 1920, in which nearly 40 were killed; and Eric Darton draws strange parallels between the lives of Minoru Yamasaki, the architect of the Towers, and the suicide hijacker Mohammad Atta. Now that the dust, both literal and figurative, has begun to settle, this collection of writing bravely points the way forward, and explains how decisions about the future of the city can be informed by lessons learned from the past. (Kirkus UK) Author InformationMichael Sorkin is principal of the Michael Sorkin Studio and director of the graduate urban design program at New York's City College. He is the author of Other Plans (2002), The Next Jerusalem (2002), Some Assembly Required (2001), Giving Ground (co-edited with Joan Copjec, 1999), Wiggle (1998), Exquisite Corpse (1994), Local Code (1993), and Variations on a Theme Park (edited, 1991). He also contributes to the New York Times Magazine, among other publications. Sharon Zukin is Professor of Sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center and Broeklundian Professor of Sociology at Brooklyn College. She is the author of The Cultures of Cities (1995), Landscapes ofPower (winner of the C. Wright Mills Award, 1991), Structures of Capital (co-edited with Paul DiMaggio, 1990), and Loft Living (1982). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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