Emerging from the subway, someone said the towers had been hit by airplanes, but it looked like the fires were dying down. “Well, they’ll go out and maybe I’ll be going back to work tomorrow,” Marlene Lundberg remembers thinking. Then the flames started spreading.

Let’s preserve Carole Johnson’s classic design at Lechmere Canal Park for all who live in or visit our beloved city.

All great cities have areas they protect for their beauty: Central Park, Boston Common, St. Mark’s Square in Venice. The CambridgeSide mall and Canal Park deserve to be protected too – especially since its owners likely don’t need to build towers to be profitable.