What to build: two architects, an urban planner, a structural engineer and a landscape designer consider the future of ground zero
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Five experts in city planning and architectural design debate building nothing on the former World Trade Center site; rebuilding the Towers; creating a new design including a major memorial space; and other alternatives for the massive site.
Publication Name: The New York Times Magazine
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0028-7822
Year: 2001
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Development: and why not bulldoze Rockefeller Center?
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Rockefeller Center's village concept, with multiuse retail and beautiful public spaces, should guide the redevelopment of the World Trade Center site. WTC was an architectural and city planning mistake that should not be repeated.
Publication Name: The New York Times Magazine
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0028-7822
Year: 2001
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Boroughs: put a piece of Downtown in Flushing
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The 9/11/01 attacks provide New York's leaders with a chance to re-think the centralization of capital expenditures on Manhattan. Alternate centers of commerce in the city's neighborhoods and boroughs are analyzed.
Publication Name: The New York Times Magazine
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0028-7822
Year: 2001
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