January 10, 2003

Our Degraded Public Realm: the Multiple Failures of Architecture Education

By SARAH WILLIAMS GOLDHAGEN

The public was astonished. The initial six schemes for redeveloping the 16-acre World Trade Center site, released last July, were cloddish and uninspired. A collection of clunky skyscrapers towering over postage-stamp-sized "memorial plazas" was the order of the day. Had any of those projects been executed as proposed, downtown Manhattan -- the cynosure of New York City and a symbol of cosmopolitan America -- would once again be the overly dense business district it was before

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