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The Aesthetics of Urban Renewal

Landscape architecture is back—too late for the WTC.

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Click here to read a slide-show essay about landscape architecture and the World Trade Center.

 
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Witold Rybczynski is Slate's architecture critic His latest book is The Biography of a Building: How Robert Sainsbury and Norman Foster Built a Great Museum. Visit his Web site. Follow him on Twitter.