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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.

Author: Riley, Terence
Publisher: The New York Times Company
Publication Name: The New York Times Magazine
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0028-7822
Year: 2001
Analysis, Interview, Panel Discussion, Remodeling and renovation, War memorials

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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.

Author: Okrent, Daniel
Publisher: The New York Times Company
Publication Name: The New York Times Magazine
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0028-7822
Year: 2001
Evaluation, History, Skyscrapers, High rise buildings, Rockefeller Center

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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.

Author: Sorkin, Michael
Publisher: The New York Times Company
Publication Name: The New York Times Magazine
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0028-7822
Year: 2001
Planning, Boroughs

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Subjects list: United States, Cover Story, Buildings and facilities, New York, New York, New York, City planning, Urban planning, World Trade Center (New York, New York), World Trade Center and Pentagon Attacks, 2001, Economic aspects
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