Developers and officials wanted to rebuild, but New Yorkers had their own ideas. Some wanted the Twin Towers rebuilt exactly as they had been, others thought nothing should be built on the site, and others wanted to see a total transformation of Lower Manhattan.
Nobody could agree, so the city did something remarkable. They gathered over 5,000 New Yorkers for an event called “Listening to the City”—the largest town hall meeting in U.S. history.
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