Lower Manhattan: Rebuilding, Renewing, And Remembering
1 October 2004 - 5:00am
Rebuilding the World Trade Center site is just one facet of the grandand challengingeffort to renew New Yorks downtown.
"In the three years since the attacks, reconstruction efforts have aligned with the mayors vision. The WTC restoration has received the most attention, and is proceeding with a force of its own. But substantial, if less publicized, progress has been made in the areas of transportation planning, residential housingboth conversions and new constructionand neighborhood building. Fueled by close to $25 billion in federal reconstruction aid, lower Manhattan is being restored to its earlier glory."
Source:
Urban Land Institute, September 30, 2004
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Maybe we should blame Thomas Jefferson. He was the godfather of the urban sprawl racket in America.
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