ABSTRACT
The twentieth century was full of irreversible human-made changes in both cityscape and landscape. The end of that century was notable for the well-celebrated beginning of a new millennium on December 31, 1999 (or was it 2000?), but I believe that the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, on New York’s World Trade Center and Washington’s Pentagon marked the beginning of significant changes in how we will rebuild America in the twenty-first century, and that, therefore, that day of infamy marks the change from the old century to the new one more clearly than the brouhaha about “Y2K” and the potential disarray of our computer-dependent capitalist society. Whether it will also mark the time when we work together on creating a less racist, more equitable society remains problematic.
