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Lower Manhattan: Rebuilding, Renewing, And Remembering

Posted by: Chris Steins
Thanks to: Chris Steins
1 October 2004 - 5:00am

Rebuilding the World Trade Center site is just one facet of the grand—and challenging—effort to renew New York’s downtown.

"In the three years since the attacks, reconstruction efforts have aligned with the mayor’s 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 housing—both conversions and new construction—and neighborhood building. Fueled by close to $25 billion in federal reconstruction aid, lower Manhattan is being restored to its earlier glory."

Full Story: Lower Manhattan: Rebuilding, Renewing, and Remembering
Source: Urban Land Institute, September 30, 2004
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The areas where we have severe blight and indications of more blight to come are basically the same as they ever were. How in the world are we ever going to move our community development selves into an alternative future that thinks differently about the challenges we face in our cities and low-income suburban and rural communities?
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