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Review Of Books About Ground Zero

Posted by: Chris Steins
Thanks to: Laura Kranz
9 September 2002 - 10:00am

The World Trade Centers will be more revered in death, than in life. Urban design writer John King reviews three books about these icons.

"What this collection brings to mind, oddly, is Rebecca Solnit's 'Hollow City,' a jeremiad against late-'90s gentrification in San Francisco. Whatever the lasting quality, they are vividly of a moment, capturing on paper what hovers in the air. And that's the value of 'After the World Trade Center': It shows how, as New York faces a challenge once inconceivable, the people who love it are fearful that belligerent panic will trample deeper issues and needs."

Full Story: Ground zero then, now and someday
Source: The San Francisco Chronicle, October 10, 2005
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