The WTC Memorial Debate Continues

The efforts to create a memorial at the site of the World Trade Center are uncoordinated.

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January 27, 2002, 4:00 AM PST

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

"For the two groups with some of the greatest investments in what to do with the void left by the fallen World Trade Center the families of the dead and the architects, builders and planners hoping to rebuild Lower Manhattan speaking different languages is only part of the problem... The rebuilding of Lower Manhattan has the makings of a bitter New York struggle, a dialogue of disparate views of grief, money, power, politics and design, inflamed by differing passions, but with no framework to reconcile them."

Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan

FULL STORY: Many Voices, but Little Dialogue on Memorial for Trade Center Site

Saturday, January 26, 2002 in The New York Times

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