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Today's News - July 9, 2002

Another busy news day… A Harvard professor has some interesting insights into the growing global economy that seem particularly applicable to our industry. Ground Zero issues heat up: The "official" preliminary plans go on display later this month. Architect Eli Attia has launched an impassioned petition drive for a national design competition with an e-mail note that states: "If allowed to stand, the decisions made to date around the rebuilding of Ground Zero will doom it forever to what verges on a national disgrace… What should become a new wonder of the world - a true statement of who we are - is emerging as just another speculative real estate development and a memorial at its side…. spending billions of public dollars for a mundane project that will stand…for generations to regret." (The list of signatures - already several thousand - has some very notable names. It will be interesting to see if it has any impact.) And in your spare time, the Gotham Gazette offers a "kit" to create and submit your own master plan.

Elsewhere, Dublin plans to demolish a 13th century castle to make room for a highway; malls get religion; and the wondrous St. Basil's in Moscow is in worse condition than thought...and much more...