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A Brief for Reconstruction

1. People must be free to gather. Uncoerced assembly is democracy expressed in space.

2. A wide range of rites and rituals of remembrance must be accommodated.

3. The need of survivors of the tragedy to come together must be served.

4. The site must be understood as a single whole.

5. The site must be easily entered and crossed. All existing streets and major building entrances surrounding the site should provide direct pedestrian access to it.

6. The literal continuation of streets and sidewalks is only the most obvious strategy.

7. The primary datum for crossing must be the grade of the site.

8. That grade should align with surrounding contours.

9. The event must be measured and marked.

10. This must include the footprints of the towers and their ramification in three dimensions, extending to bedrock and the heavens.

11. These ramifications should engage both space and use.

12. The site must permanently educate about the nature of the events that happened there.

13. The site should be a point of focus for a well-mixed urbanity downtown.

14. Any construction at the large scale must not preclude the possibility of the small.

15. The site should serve as a point of growth and spreading of green space.

16. The site should be well connected to its neighborhood, to New York City, and to the world.

17. The transportation infrastructure already below and near the site is crucial to these connections.

18. Many people should live near the site.

19. The elaboration of the site should support existing social, economic, and natural ecologies.

20. The site should be exceptional.

2002