The cruel irony of "Groundswell," although the MoMA curators don't mention it, is that only a few miles away is perhaps the best-known degraded urban landscape in the world: the WTC site. If ever there was a place where a long view was required, this is it. Instead, although landscape architects took part in the 2002 competition, decisions about the site were dominated by architects who, encouraged by the public, focused on creating viscerally dramatic forms. Now, as Daniel Libeskind's project unravels, while the gaping excavation remains vacant, the unsuitability of this static approach is evident. The difficult and slow reality of reconstructing such a complex site demands precisely a 50-year plan. A landscape approach to rebuilding would have recognized that something was needed immediately, that whatever this was, it might not be there forever, and that a "plan" should accommodate psychic remediation as well as physical rebuilding. "Groundswell" is three years too late.