The Ground Zero Concourse: The Internetic Mediation and the Deliberative Process

1. Web sites of cities or regions For some years, cities around the whole world have used Web sites to communicate different information, its realities, notably patrimonial realities, and urban development programs. All those who have been able to participate in public inquiries relative to such projects know that there is a huge mass of documents available for consultation. A great availability is necessary to be able to analyze them completely and to formulate a criticical synthesis. The interactivity of the Internet allows not only this availability but also the cross consultation of the different projects or multiple data, both textual and graphic, that inform the same project. 2. Ground Zero competition: The internetic mediation The competition of architecture and town planning relative to the project of reconstruction of the World Trade Center has given place to the experimentation of an information system of the public by means of Web sites that are far more developed than usual sites of urban projects.