Having opened this book with an exploration of the 9/11 Memorial and the significance of Ground Zero as a site of architectural remembrance, we conclude with a critical examination of a novel that interrogates the construction of this very site and its complex relationship with the post-9/11 urban landscape and the emergence of another unconventional development of urban walking. In the context of what is commonly referred to as post-9/11 literature— particularly in relation to the image of the city in the aftermath of the attacks— Amy Waldman’s The Submission (2011) emerges as one of the earliest and most compelling examples warranting critical attention. Waldman’s The Submission offers a compelling narrative lens through which to reconsider the figure of the flâneur in the aftermath of 9/11. The plot revolves around a national dispute that arises when an architect is selected to design a memorial for the victims of the September 11 attacks, which should address, as a monument, complex issues including grief, politics, and national identity. The central tension of the narrative emerges when it is revealed that the author behind the selected design, entitled “The Garden,” is a Muslim-American architect, Mohammad Khan (later renamed as “Mo”). This revelation sparks a national controversy that forms the central axis of the novel, prompting urgent questions about who possesses the authority to shape and redefine the city’s urban architecture through the mediated memory of 9/11—a memory frequently framed as “exclusively” American.