A Long-Range View Of Downtown

Redeveloping Lower Manhattan requires a different kind of social vision.

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August 18, 2002, 11:00 AM PDT

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

"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."

Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan

FULL STORY: Measuring Downtown's Future

Friday, August 16, 2002 in The New York Times

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