After the World Trade Center
Rethinking New York City

Nineteen of New York's best urbanists consider the attacks of September 11. Their essays provide a panoramic social portrait of New York and point to a manifesto for a democratically planned city, where all the different communities count.

Through a multitude of perspectives on the emerging city, After the World Trade Center provides alternative visions to the expected landscape of power. Contributors include: Marshall Berman, M. Christine Boyer, Peter Marcuse, David Harvey, Mike Wallace, Edwin G. Burrows, Eric Darton, Peter Kwong, Moustafa Bayoumi, John Kuo Wei Tchen, Mark Wigley, Rob

Introduction 1. When Bad Things Happen to Good People 2. Our World Trade Center 3. Manhattan at War 4. Whose Downtown?!? 5. The First Wall Street Bomb 6. Cracks in the Edifice of the Empire State 7. Insecurity by Design 8. The Janus Face of Architectural Terrorism 9. Scales of Terror 10. Meditations on a Wounded Skyline and its Stratigraphies of Pain 11. The Odor of Publicity 12. Letter to a G-Man 13. From Jackson Heights to Nuestra America: 9/11 and Latino New York 14. What Kind of Planning After September 11? 15. Spaces of Reflection, Recovery and Resistance 16. A Time for Transportation Strategy 17. Enduring Innocence 18. The Center Cannot Hold 19. New York, New Deal. Index.