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Security mindset threatens civic design
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New Urban News Article with images and sidebars, 9/1/2004
Ways are sought to protect buildings and their occupants without seriously damaging urban livability.
After the loss of nearly 3,000 lives at the World Trade Center three years ago, no one doubts that large risks have come to American soil, or that government agencies must do something about them. But some designers believe the remedies that security experts have recommended — and that the federal government has adopted — threaten to harm the public realm through undue isolation of public buildings.