I too favor a walkway to accommodate those who are coming to the
WTC site.  There are great architects and artists who could make this a
pathway for remembrance rather than a crude runway for rubbernecking.  I
don't think a lot of didactic interpretation is needed.

That said, I've been rather appalled by the NYC architectural leaders' quick
emphasis on rebuilding and some rather ill-disguised jockeying for the very
big plum job-- justified as proving to the world the resiliency of our
economy.  The needed office space would surely be replaced by the market
left to its own devices -- no place does that better than NYC -- and
replacement space might be built more quickly on other sites where building
occupants would also be less fearful of being once again a target.

I suggest the WTC site should remain vacant at least until the last of the
children of those who died have grown to adulthood.  Let's entrust their
generation with the responsibility for creating the future of the site.  By
not so quickly taking away a tangible if painful part of children's memories
of their lost parents, I think we'd show the world another aspect of
strength.

Ann Trowbridge
(a NYC-born Philadelphia architect)

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