World's Tallest Building Pays Homage To American History
Freedom Tower, the skyscraper to be constructed on the World Trade Center site, will incorporate two tributes to America's past. Its 1776-ft. height recognizes the year the 13 colonies declared their independence from Great Britain. The broadcast ... [... more]
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Closure
 One of the four Operations Commanders of the World Trade Center site chronicles the rescue and recovery mission at Ground Zero from September 11, 2001, through the end of operations on May 30, 2002, while telling the story of his own struggle to make ... [... more]
$9.99
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The Shared Table: Cooking with Spirit for Family and Friends
A labor of love from one of the most celebrated chefs in the business, Don Pintabona's The Shared Table is a cookbook designed for casual dining with family and friends. With its focus on cooking and community, The Shared Table takes us on a culinary ... [... more]
$35.00
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Post Urbanism & ReUrbanism: Michigan Debates on ...
This volume is one of three books in The Michigan Debates on Urbanism, a series that also features Everyday Urbanism and New Urbanism. Each book represents a distinct, inevitable, but still-emerging paradigm in contemporary urbanism, and is an ... [... more]
$17.95
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THINK New York: A Ground Zero Diary
The emotional and complex legacy of September 11, 2001 made the efforts to rebuild the World Trade Center site an unprecedented challenge for the architecture profession. This book chronicles the work of one team of designers. THINK, a collaboration of ... [... more]
$65.00
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It Was Like a Fever: Storytelling in Protest and Politics
Activists and politicians have long recognized the power of a good story to move people to action. In early 1960 four black college students sat down at a whites-only lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, and refused to leave. Within a month sit- ... [... more]
$19.00
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Sixteen Acres: Architecture and the Outrageous Struggle ...
A no-holds-barred look at the collision of interests behind the ambitious attempt to raise a new national icon at Ground Zero When we stand in downtown Manhattan in the future and look up and ask, "Why?"-Why is it so strange, so rude, so ... [... more]
$25.00
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American Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade Center
Selected as one of the best books of 2002 by The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, and Chicago Sun-Times Within days after September 11, 2001, William Langewiesche had secured unique, unrestricted, round-the-clock ... [... more]
$14.00
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Architecture or Techno-Utopia: Politics after Modernism
In Architecture or Techno-Utopia, Felicity Scott traces an alternative genealogy of the postmodern turn in American architecture, focusing on a set of experimental practices and polemics that emerged in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Scott examines ... [... more]
$29.95
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Light at Ground Zero: St. Paul's Chapel After 9/11
From the back cover: "St. Paul's had been spared." It seemed clear to me that if this was true, it was not because we were holier than anyone who died across the street; it was because we now had a big job to do. --The Rev. Lyndon Harris, ... [... more]
$15.99
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Breaking Ground: An Immigrant's Journey from Poland to ...
"The renowned architect introduces his iconoclastic approach to public space and shares his vision for the most important architectural project of our time, the 1776 Freedom Tower at the World Trade Center site. Drawing on his uncommon background ... [... more]
$16.00
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Closure: The Untold Story of the Ground Zero Recovery ...
One of the four Operations Commanders of the World Trade Center site chronicles the rescue and recovery mission at Ground Zero from September 11, 2001, through the end of operations on May 30, 2002, while telling the story of his own struggle to make ... [... more]
$35.00
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