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Reports that Rebuild Downtown Our Town (RDOT), a community advocacy group for Lower Manhattan, has issued a position paper recommending several strategies for attracting retail to the neighborhoods of Lower Manhattan as a stimulus to growth. Identification of shopping districts, retail destinations, and retail corridors by RDOT; Suggestions by RDOT to avoid siphoning retail traffic away from surrounding neighborhoods.

Several stellar Japanese architects recently converged on Manhattan, New York, for a symposium at the Japan Society called "Technology and Tradition in Contemporary Japanese Architecture," co-organized by the periodical "Architectural Record." The conference was launched with a lecture by Fumihiko Maki, recently appointed architect for a new United Nations building and a tower at Ground Zero. The focus then passed to younger architects, including Ware Kishi , Kengo Kuma, and the ebullient Jun Aoki. Aoki, Shigeru Ban and Kazuyo Sejima are rising architects. Each has built or is about to build in Manhattan: Aoki's work for Vuitton on Fifth Avenue, Ban's Paper Arch at the Museum of Modern Art in 2000, and Sejima's New Museum envisaged for the Bowery.

The article reports on the condition of transportation in Manhattan, New York. On the Upper West Side of Manhattan, a highway cuts off access between the city and the river. There is an ever-growing need to unite rail and roads, airports and transit, and to make each mode fit more gracefully into cities. But the political and bureaucratic barriers are formidable. The bills will be very hard fought because transportation money is scarce, the economy tough. But still efforts are being taken to improve the transportation facility.

Criticizes architectural design layouts proposed by several architects for the site of the World Trade Center in Manhattan in New York City. Influence of guidelines set by the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation on the proposed designs; Element of cloning in designs of the structure; Analysis of design features of the layout proposed by architect Daniel Libeskind.