LESS OR MORE.(discussions over building a monument at the former World Trade Center site in New York, New York)

Publication: The New Yorker

Publication Date: 11-NOV-02

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When it comes to Ground Zero, just about the only thing that everyone agrees on is that there ought to be a memorial to the people who died there. No one, though, seems to have the slightest idea what this memorial should be, or whether it should be a physical structure at all.

The issues have been fought over at countless public hearings and forums, but last week Diana Balmori, a landscape architect who teaches at Yale, and Marian Imperatore, an architect and consultant, decided that it was time for a private forum, out of range of some of the more passionate constituents. The women, who head the memorials committee of the Civic Alliance, a consortium of...

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