Lynne Sagalyn is a Professor of Real Estate at Columbia University Business School and is also the author of Times Square Roulette (MIT Press).
A superbly qualified scholar thoroughly deconstructs the tortured story behind the rebuilding of the World Trade Center complex...Sagalyn keeps the many strands of this story expertly in hand...Sagalyn has produced a definitive history and an urban studies classic. --Kirkus Reviews Riveting...exhaustive...Sagalyn's book is likely to stand as the primary reference on Ground Zero. - Wall Street Journal Now, more than a decade after the initial flurry of books, we have what is likely to remain the definitive account of this tortuous and unedifying saga, Lynne B. Sagalyn's Power at Ground Zero: Politics, Money, and the Remaking of Lower Manhattan. Her meticulous and exceptionally clear exposition of the essential facts provides more than enough evidence for readers to come to their own, and often damning, conclusions. - New York Review of Books ...for researchers, teachers, and students interested in how planning actually works, it will be valuable. For anyone studying New York City, it is indispensable. -- Michael B. Teitz, Journal of the American Planning Association