ABSTRACT
September 11 Marked A Day of great discontinuities in New York and in the United States. When terrorists demolished the World Trade Center, they affected our personal and collective psychology as much as, or perhaps more than, our physical landscape. Five months later, the need to revisit and fix that landscape as well as heal our hearts remains overwhelming. Unlike an ordinary development problem, one where a site is methodically cleared, and architects hold charrettes and competitions to provide for highest and best use, this problem has tragically organic roots and is burdened with a vast symbolic load. Thousands of people from all over the world remain and will always remain there; simultaneously, the site will always be remembered as the place where the golden age of the twentieth century of the United States came to a dramatic closure.
