World Trade Center

After the World Trade Center attacks, planners, neighbors, and Mayor Bloomberg supported reweaving the site into the city's street grid, in the process undoing "a painful planning error of the 1960s." Security concerns seem to have won out, however.
6 days ago   The New York Times
This Architizer blog post features breathtaking photos from the WTC Progress Twitter account.
Feb 7, 2012   Architizer
Erica Stewart of the National Trust for Historic Preservation runs down a few of the ways that rebuilding efforts after the attacks on 9/11 took historic preservation into account.
Sep 12, 2011   National Trust For Historic Preservation
James S. Russell walks the new memorial at the World Trade Center site, and finds it "a place of quiet dignity" that is saddled with an unnecessary $300 million museum and visitors center.
Sep 6, 2011   Bloomberg
The New York Times reports that yes, construction is beginning to move more rapidly at Ground Zero.
Sep 7, 2010   The New York Times
New York City's Ground Zero has sat as an empty hole for years. Though infrastructure work is underway, politics are holding the rebuilding back, according to this interview with <em>New Yorker</em> architecture critic Paul Goldberger.
Mar 19, 2010   National Public Radio
After years of debate and negotiation, the redevelopment of the World Trade Center site finally appears to be going forward. But there is considerable doubt as to its economic viability, writes Eliot Brown.
Mar 17, 2010   New York Observer
Mohamed Atta, one of the 9/11 terrorists, pursued a masters degree in city planning before the attacks. Slate's Daniel Brooks reads Atta's masters thesis, and finds a strain of anti-Western modernism that is revealing.
Sep 9, 2009   Slate.com
The downturn in the economy has led the owners of the Ground Zero site to put off for decades construction of two of the three planned towers.
Apr 18, 2009   Huffington Post
<p>Plans for redeveloping the World Trade Center site in Manhattan have been pushed back again, possibly to 2013.</p>
Jul 5, 2008   BBC