Architecture takes the stage -- Rockefeller's vision: the original World Trade Center -- Reclaiming the skyline: the decision to rebuild -- The future of memory: finding common ground for money and culture -- Listening to the city: what matters and who decides? -- Fitting it all on sixteen acres -- Boldness and vision: the public demands more -- The innovative design study -- Making things better: the city responds to the designs -- Architecture as democracy: building a consensus -- Libeskind and THINK: design gets personal -- The marriage of politics and building -- An unnatural hybrid: the collaboration of Childs and Libeskind -- The memorial competition -- Reflecting absence -- Commerce and culture at ground zero