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Book Synopsis10 years later, a unique look at Ground Zero from across the street
Trade Review"A very successful academic micro-study of one community's response to our nation's greatest shock." * Library Journal *
"A compelling ethnographic account of how residents of Battery Park City in lower Manhattan came together to heal and rebuild their community after the attack on the Twin Towers on September 11, 2011...commendable as a community study." * Contemporary Sociology *
"Scientifically exacting and warmly personal, Smithsimon elucidates the residents struggles from survival to recovery, the coalescence of community groups, and the debates over redevelopment and the Ground Zero memorial. A well-illustrated, critical, yet sympathetic study of privilege and catastrophe that ultimately celebrates the vitality and diversity of a great city." * Booklist *
"A valuable addition to the sociology of urban community development and inequality." -- D. A Chekki * CHOICE *
"In addition to providing a rich ethnographic account of a neighborhood very much in the public eye over the last decade, September 12 introduces several concepts worth of other scholars' attention and study." -- Japonica Brown-Saracino * American Journal of Sociology *
"A valuable study of economic privilege and spatial exclusion in the shadow of the Twin Towers and the heart of Americas biggest city." -- Sharon Zukin,author of Naked City
"Smithsimon explores a basic truth: just as there is no community without politics, there is no democratic politics without a multiplicity of spaces in which people can engage each other in debate. This is an outstanding ethnography of the micro-politics of daily life." -- Robert Beauregard,author of When America Became Suburban
"A fascinating book...[which] observes community life...through the prism of the months following 9/11." -- Matthew Fenton * Broadsheet *
"What hes really after in September 12, his account of the history of Battery Park City, is a broad analysis of residents political actions to defend their most unusual home...Much of Smithsimons account focuses on that gulf, both geographic and psychological, and the political mobilization of Battery Park Citys resident professionals to keep their neighborhood isolated from those who might wander in across forbidding West Street." -- Alyssa Katz * The Nation *
