Weiss and Manfredi Remember 9/11 with Michael Kimmelman

As the city nears the 20th anniversary of 9/11, New York Times architecture critic Michael Kimmelman quotes Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi on Lower Manhattan's regrowth. A perpetually contested space, rebuilding Lower Manhattan after 9/11 has been a circuitous, endlessly complex process—and yet, Kimmelman argues, the city has emerged triumphant, but different. "For us and many of our friends who started walking across the bridge, 9/11 fundamentally changed how we envisioned the city," says Manfredi. For many involved in the city building process, the type of urbanism required by 21st century New York City shifted dramatically. Weiss adds, "People periodically declare New York over—they did with 9/11, the financial crisis, Hurricane Sandy, now Covid—but the city endures." Read the full article here.