{"product_id":"9781466827615","title":"Sixteen Acres: Architecture and the Outrageous Struggle for the Future of Ground Zero","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA no-holds-barred look at the collision of interests behind the ambitious attempt to raise a new national icon at Ground Zero\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen we stand in downtown Manhattan in the future and look up and ask, \"Why?\"--Why is it so strange, so rude, so striving, so right, so wrong?--we will have \u003ci\u003eSixteen Acres \u003c\/i\u003eto give us the answers. Tracing the redevelopment of the World Trade Center site from graveyard to playground for high design, insurgent critic Philip Nobel strips away the hyperbole to reveal the secret life of the century's most charged building project.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProviding a tally of deceptions and betrayals, a look at the meaning of events beyond the pieties of the moment, and a running bestiary of the main players--developers and bureaucrats, star architects and amateur fantasists, politicians and the well-spun press--Nobel's book bares the crucial moments as factions and institutions converge to create a noisy new culture at Ground Zero.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTragic and comic by turns, full of low dealings and high dudgeon, \u003ci\u003eSixteen Acres\u003c\/i\u003e takes us behind the scenes at a site in search of its sanctity, exposing the reconstruction as the flawed product of a complicated city: driven by money, hamstrung by politics, burdened by the wounds it is somehow supposed to heal.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Holt, Henry \u0026 Company, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47165496721648,"sku":"9781466827615","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781466827615_p0.jpg?v=1769891147","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781466827615","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}