ABSTRACT

In his farewell to office, Rudy Giuliani, standing in St. Paul’s Chapel, adjacent to the World Trade Center site, declared, “I really believe we shouldn’t think about this site out there, right behind us, right here, as a site for economic development. We should think about a soaring, monumental, beautiful memorial that just draws millions of people here who just want to see it. We have to be able to create something here that enshrines this forever and that allows people to build on it and grow from it. And it’s not going to happen if we just think about it in a very narrow way.”