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...original World Trade Center, completed in 1973, suffered under a similar real estate climate. "The argument back then was that downtown was losing to midtown," says Susan Fainstein, professor of urban planning at Columbia University. "They thought by building this impressive complex, it would make downtown a competitor. But so much space came up at once, and there just wasn't the demand to fill it." New York State even moved some offices there to help keep the rent rolls filled. The latest plans for ground zero call for the same 10 million sq. ft. of office space...
...agreement with Silverstein until late September. More important, with Pataki in his final year in office, New York will get a new Governor--with ultimate authority over the site--next January. Expect the future of ground zero to be re-examined yet again. [This article contains a complex diagram. Please see hardcopy of magazine.] Grand Vision The planned office towers and memorial at the World Trade Center site are finally moving forward. But who will fill the buildings? 7 WORLD TRADE CENTER Not part of the WTC master plan, and the only structure already rebuilt. The developer calls...
TRANSPORTATION HUBS A key to attracting businesses to the area is a rebuilt commuter-rail station and a new complex that connects 13 of the city's subway routes to the site. Preliminary work has begun on both projects...
...instruct them. Might Tibet creep into Chinese souls and consciences even as China takes over Tibetan streets? Barnett is too subtle and skeptical to concentrate on anything more than the silences that lie at the heart of many a Lhasa conversation, and the human realities that remain too complex for any simple right or wrong. In Lhasa: Streets with Memories, though, he shows us with overpowering restraint a city that, increasingly, has no memory at all. Memory?like history and culture and religion?is just one more redundancy pushed aside to make room for more skyscrapers...
...beyond these harmful side effects, Bush’s educational prescription is based on a misdiagnosis. First, the plan is supposed to stop the bleeding of high school dropouts by making class more stimulating so that more will stay in school. The alarming dropout rate is a complex puzzle, and scholars attribute the phenomenon to a variety of social, academic, and institutional factors. It is simplistic to assert that refocusing a few courses on a major will have a large effect on the dropout rate. The claim that a high school major will make school more exciting for poor students...