Should the World Trade Center towers be rebuilt? Architects, politicians, city officials, developers and others are engaged in a fierce debate.
"Now the towers are gone, and their absence has become vastly more potent than their presence ever was. And so the discussion of what, if anything, to put in their place, is already shaping up as a profoundly complex collision of values in a nation confused and in pain.""City officials are forming a commission to address the question. Normally placid architects thump their desks and talk about revenge and fighting back. Historians decry the building of a replica as an act of Disneyfied history...and want a memorial on the 16-acre site. US Senator Charles Schumer..calls for building 'something grand,' while developer Donald Trump envisions 'a soul-soaring statement of our faith in the future.' One proposal whistling around the Internet features a rendering of a five-tower center that looks remarkably like a human hand with the middle finger raised to the terrorists."
Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan
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