The politicians recited Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address to commemorate September 11, but when it came to building on the site where September 11 terrorist attacks took place, they are building, as if they are building in Vegas.
If a developer were to go to the government asking to have control of the Gettysburg Battlefield site to build a couple skyscrapers wouldn't this sound stupid? If this is unreasonable why does building on the WTC site sound reasonable?
The argument of building on the former WTC site is suspended by one thread of coercion disguised as logic. This faint logic pretends to keep Lower Manhattan successful by not depriving it of the 16 acres site that many view as the last chance for a significant construction project in Lower Manhattan. This thread of logic losses it suspension qualities in an instance when one realizes that my thesis project provided more than 400 acres of better quality land for the expansion of Lower Manhattan that is a stone-throw away from the former WTC site. A couple dozen of new World Trade Centers could be built on this expansion. And Lower Manhattan will be a lot more successful than it used to be, without building on the site where September 11 events took place.
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