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What do you think should be built on the WTC site? Send us your ideas, proposals and drawings. Your ideas will be shared with organizations around NYC that are collecting community input on what should be built on the site. 
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Who has the power?  Will the World Trade Center site become office towers once again? Will a few acres be set aside for a memorial? Numerous organizations are trying to establish a protocol to facilitate the decision making process. The alliances are fluid and the meetings chaotic. It can be confusing keeping track of the decision makers and their opinions. Our online guide will help you make sense of the players and their opinions.
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Map of Temporary Memorials  It is easy to stumble upon temporary memorials throughout the city, but if you would like to go looking for them, you can download this map and take it with you as you walk around the city. (Photo courtesy NOAA)
This map is provided courtesy of Laura Kurgan To get a printed map, contact New York, New Visions. |
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Additional Resources Gotham Gazette's Rebuilding NYC A great compilation of local news reports on the rebuilding process. |
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Missing:
Spontaneous Shrines to the World Trade Center
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| Four Voices Four New Yorkers talk about what should be built at the World Trade Center site. 
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| Who Has the Power?
Reporter Andrea Bernstein unravels the complex relationships between elected and appointed officials, community groups and business interests that have a role in the redevelopment of lower Manhattan.
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| The History of Big Redevelopment
Projects in New York A conversation with Kent Barwick, President of the Municipal Art Society. Kent talks about major past controversies, including the proposed demolition of Grand Central Terminal and the building of the Cross Bronx Expressway. He says this time, the politics of rebuilding may be different.
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| The Memorial That Exists
Today Reporter Karen Michel reflects on ways that New Yorkers have spontaneously memorialized the victims of the attack on the World Trade Center.
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| Learning from Other Memorials
Other cities and nations have faced the difficult task of memorializing manmade and natural tragedies, from the Holocaust to devastating earthquakes. How have they dealt with this challenge? A conversation with James E. Young, a leading authority on Holocaust memorials and Chair of the Department of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and Ray Gastil, Director of the Van Alen Institute and curator of a new exhibit, Renewing, Rebuilding, Remembering.
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| Sacred Ground The World Trade Center site has been called sacred ground. But what does that mean in New York, a city that is constantly rebuilding? Karen Frillmann looks into this question.
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Funding is provided by the Carnegie
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