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Paul Goldberger has an article in the current New Yorker that explores why this rebuilding process has stalled so long. He dismisses Trump's idea out of hand saying the original twin towers were "ugly" to begin with; to which I say "nuh uh." His proposal is to build more housing in that area, which is fine, but goes back to this cold, calculating sense of "fixing the problem" that I think has plagued the project since the rubble was cleared away. When the city of Hiroshima was destroyed, they made room for a peace memorial and then went about modernizing and rebuilding things pretty much as they were. Four years later, nothing at all stands at the site of the WTC, and that is inexcusable.

argh! I just got last week's New Yorker last Friday. I haven't even had a chance to read it yet...

So but otherwise: word.