​It has been twenty-five years since the terror attacks that destroyed the World Trade Center towers, killing more than 2,700 people and rending the landscape of Lower Manhattan. The rebuilding effort that followed began with an outpouring of proposals from the world’s most prominent architects—some mournful or pragmatic, others wildly speculative—before running aground in political acrimony. Over time the process righted itself, at least to a degree, with a memorial and museum, office towers, a transit hub, and a performing-arts center filling the site.

​Now that the rebuilding process is essentially complete, what lessons can New York City draw from this twenty-five-year saga? What does the site as it stands today suggest about the trajectory of Lower Manhattan, governance in New York City and Albany, and architecture culture? A quarter of a century on, is Ground Zero a neighborhood, a mourning zone, or some uneasy combination of the two?

Join n+1, New York Review of Architecture, and Punch List in discussion about the rebuilding process—and the paths not taken—at the World Trade Center.

Tickets are $14 for n+1 subscribers and their plus-ones and $24 for non-subscribers.

Wednesday, September 9
7 PM
The Great Hall at Cooper Union
7 East 7th Street
New York

Featuring:

• Andy Battle, writer, editor, and teacher
• ​Justin Beal, artist and writer
• Cosmo Bjorkenheim, LJ Frezza, and Anny Oberlink, filmmakers
• Christopher Hawthorne, Punch List and Yale School of Architecture
• Mark Krotov, n+1
• Samuel Medina, New York Review of Architecture
• Lynne Sagalyn, author and professor emerita at Columbia Business School
• Rose Salane, conceptual artist and curator
• Nikil Saval, Pennsylvania state senator and former editor of n+1
• Carla Swickerath, architect at Studio Libeskind
• Audrey Wollen, writer and artist
• Sharon Zukin, documentary filmmaker and professor emerita of sociology at Brooklyn College and at the CUNY Graduate Center

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