September 12 : Community and Neighborhood Recovery at Ground Zero / Gregory Smithsimon.
2011
HV6432.7 .S65 2016
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September 12 : Community and Neighborhood Recovery at Ground Zero / Gregory Smithsimon.
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9780814771129
Published
New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2011]
Copyright
©2011
Language
English
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In English.
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1 online resource
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10.18574/nyu/9780814740842.001.0001 doi
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HV6432.7 .S65 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification
974.71044
Summary
The collapse of the World Trade Center shattered windows across the street in Battery Park City, throwing the neighborhood into darkness and smothering homes in debris. Residents fled. In the months and years after they returned, they worked to restore their community. Until September 11, Battery Park City had been a secluded, wealthy enclave just west Wall Street, one with all the opulence of the surrounding corporate headquarters yet with a gated, suburban feel. After the towers fell it became the most visible neighborhood in New York. This ethnography of an elite planned community near the heart of New York City's financial district examines both the struggles and shortcomings of one of the city's wealthiest neighborhoods. In doing so, September 12 discovers the vibrant exclusivity that makes Battery Park City an unmatched place to live for the few who can gain entry. Focusing on both the global forces that shape local landscapes and the exclusion that segregates American urban development, Smithsimon shows the tensions at work as the neighborhood's residents mobilized to influence reconstruction plans. September 12 reveals previously unseen conflicts over the redevelopment of Lower Manhattan, providing a new understanding of the ongoing, reciprocal relationship between social conflicts and the spaces they both inhabit and create.
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Creating Battery Park City
2 Real Privilege and False Charity
3 Residents, Space, and Exclusivity
4 Oasis to Epicenter
5 Every Day Is September 11
6 Class and Community Organizations
7 Definitely in My Backyard
8 Conclusion
Appendix A "September 11, 2001"
Appendix B
Notes
Index
About the Author
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Creating Battery Park City
2 Real Privilege and False Charity
3 Residents, Space, and Exclusivity
4 Oasis to Epicenter
5 Every Day Is September 11
6 Class and Community Organizations
7 Definitely in My Backyard
8 Conclusion
Appendix A "September 11, 2001"
Appendix B
Notes
Index
About the Author