Greenwich South: A Model for Lower Manhattan

Based on the premise that Greenwich South, an area in Lower Manhattan bounded by the World Trade Center, Battery Park, Battery Park City and the Financial District, has the potential to complete Lower Manhattan as a fully-connected urban fabric, the Alliance for Downtown New York developed a study entitled Five Principles for Greenwich South: A Model for Lower Manhattan.

These "five principles" are meant to encourage incremental change, suggesting intervention strategies on a range of scales and with a range of timeframes for implementation.

The Downtown Alliance invited 10 teams of the nation's most imaginative and daring architects, landscape designers and artists to address hypothetical design challenges using the stated principles, and the results of these speculative explorations are on view at the Center for Architecture in the current exhibition entitled What If.