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Starting from zero.(book)(Book Review)

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Paul Goldberger Up from Zero: Politics, Architecture, and the Rebuilding of Ground Zero. Random House, 273 pages, $24.95

reviewed by Francis Morrone

No sooner had the World Trade Center been destroyed than people--politicians, the press, architects, concerned citizens--began to consider new projects for the site. Ordinarily, any development at such a scale would have been complicated enough, as these things always are in New York. But the ultimate responsibility would have devolved upon the site's owner and/or leaseholder--respectively, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and the developer Larry Silverstein.

But this project was ...

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