- 1 World Trade Center (Freedom Tower)@
- America Rebuilds: A Year at Ground Zero
 - Online companion to the PBS film following the post-September 11 lives and work of rescue workers, engineers, contractors, families of victims, and community activists. - Architectural Record: A New World Trade Center
- Features design proposals from architects.
- Build A New World Trade Center
- Essay and discussion forum.
- Civic Alliance to Rebuild Downtown New York
- Convened by the Regional Plan Association in partnership with New School University, New York University, and Pratt Institute to develop strategies for redevelopment.
- Design Trust for Public Space: Reconstruction Report
- Publication programme devoted to enhancing the public's understanding of the procedures and issues involved in the World Trade Centre redevelopment efforts.
- Designers Look Beyond Debris
- From the New York Times. Discussion of suggested designs and ideas for rebuilding, replacing, and memorializing the World Trade Centre.
- DowntownNYC
- Gathering ideas and opinions about the redevelopment of the Lower Manhattan from the people who live and work there, or care about its future.
- Gotham Gazette: Rebuilding NYC
- Coverage of the rebuilding process at the World Trade Centre, including calendar, notes on the Libeskind Plan, and news on security issues.
- Libeskind, Daniel (b. 1946)@
- Learn about Daniel Libeskind, the Polish architect and his unconventional buildings with skewed angles. Sites offer bio, interview transcripts, career highlights, photo gallery, sketches, and plan designs of the architect who recieved commission to reconstruct the World Trade Centre.
- Lower Manhattan and the World Trade Center Site
- From the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation. Presents officially proposed concepts for rebuilding the World Trade Centre, including plans for memorials.
- Lower Manhattan Development Corporation (LMDC)
- Public agency created in the aftermath of September 11th to help plan and coordinate the rebuilding and revitalization of Lower Manhattan. Provides information on the the revised design for the Freedom Tower (aka One World Trade Centre), as well as the design by Daniel Libeskind which was initially selected for the World Trade Centre site.
- Lower Manhattan.info
- Source for everything from transit schedules to transportation maps, rebuilding plans to recreation, cleanup efforts to community involvement.
- New Design Concept for The World Trade Center
- Artist's futuristic proposal to rebuild the World Trade Centre.
- New York City Skyline
- Discussion board on what to build in place of the World Trade Centre.
- New York Times: Envisioning Downtown
- The architects discuss their proposed rebuilding plans.
- New York Times: Thinking Big: A Plan for Ground Zero and Beyond
- Interactive look at possible future designs for the World Trade Centre. Registration required.
- Paranoia: A Grand Hotel on the Hudson
- Discusses Gaudi's design for a hotel at the site which would later house the World Trade Centre, now being considered as part of the site's redevelopment.
- Project Rebirth
- Uses time-lapse photography to document the rebuilding of the World Trade Centre and the construction of the Freedom Tower (now called 1 World Trade Centre).
- Rebuild Ground Zero
- Follow the progress of 1 World Trade Centre (aka the Freedom Tower) and the WTC rebuilding process. Browse an extensive collection of photos and videos and check out the Ground Zero webcam.
- Regional Plan Association Paper
(PDF) - Text of a civic planning initiative for rebuilding the World Trade Centre district from the Regional Plan Association
- Restorewtc
- Site protesting the Freedom Tower design and examining political issues behind the rebuilding of the World Trade Centre.
- Team Twin Towers
- Working to support, promote, and encourage the restoration of the Twin Towers and surrounding area in a responsible, thoughtful, and caring manner.
- Wikipedia: World Trade Center Site
- Provides hyperlinked information about Ground Zero, the plot of land on which the World Trade Centre complex stood. Includes notes on rebuilding and memorial plans.
- World Trade Center II Design
- Presents an alternate plan for rebuilding on the WTC site.
- WTC and Lower Manhattan: Past and Future
- From The Lewis Mumford Centre at the University of Albany. Presents a history of the construction, use, and destruction of the World Trade Centre in New York.
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