A Long-Range View Of Downtown
18 August 2002 - 11:00am
Redeveloping Lower Manhattan requires a different kind of social vision.
"why have municipal agencies gone on to invite us to create yet more visions? Answers for the city will not lie in such perfect visions, or even in countervisions. Another type of vision is in order: a social vision that can direct the move to form and design. We need to step back, if briefly, to evolve a conception of the meaning of New York today — to consider what it is and what it should be."
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The New York Times, August 16, 2002
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