Who is the city for? : architecture, equity, and the public realm in Chicago /: architecture, equity, and the public realm in Chicago. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Blair Kamin ; with photographs by Lee Bey.
• Authors: Kamin, Blair
• Other Names: Bey, Lee 1965- photographer.
• Contents: Presidents and their legacy projects: self-aggrandizing or civic-minded? -- Urban design: boom times for cities, but who benefits? -- Architecture: are buildings good citizens? -- Historic preservation: what gets saved and why -- Two mayors, two directions: who can make the city work for all? Part One. Presidents and Their Legacy Projects: Self-Aggrandizing or Civic-Minded? -- Trump Takes Aim at Design and the Design Press -- The Trump Sign, a Poke in the Eye, Mars the Riverfront -- Trump's Sycophantic, Vitriolic Treatment of Architecture Critics -- How Should Trump Make Federal Architecture Great? By Ignoring the Ideologues Who Speak for Modernism and Classicism -- The Obama Presidential Center: No Walk in the Park -- Obama Center Design: Promising, Populist, not Yet Persuasive Obama Center's Plans Won't Destroy Olmsted's Park -- They Should Be Improved, not Rejected -- Part Two. Urban Design: Boom Times for Cities, but Who Benefits? -- Urbanization on the March -- and on Hold because of the Pandemic -- China's Skyscrapers Are Trophies for the Nation and a Lifeline for Chicago Architects -- but Growth Has Its Price -- Attacking "Plop Architecture": There's a Better, Transit -- Oriented Way to Design Our Cities -- The Rise of Chicago's Super Loop: So Much Building, So Little Architecture The Things We Love about City Life -- Public Transit, Urban Hustle -- Are the Very Things That Put Us at Risk for COVID- 19 -- Public Spaces: A Burst of Innovation, with Mixed Results onn Equity -- Maggie Daley Park Is a Seed with Potential to Blossom -- Chicago's Downtown Riverwalk: A New Phase of the City's "Second Lakefront" Takes Shape, a Model of Waterfront Urbanity -- The 606, Two Years Later: As Its Landscape Grows, So Do Concerns about Displacement -- Rating Chicago's Latest wave of Parks and Public Spaces by the Three "E"s: They're Better on Entertainment and Ecology Than Equity Transit and Infrastructure: After a Bumpy Start, Solid Advances -- Signs Uglify Our Beautiful Bridges -- First New Loop "L" Station in Twenty Years Creates Curvy Gateway to Millennium Park -- Along the Dan Ryan, an Eye-Grabbing CTA Terminal Reaches beyond the Ordinary -- On Chicago's South Lakefront, a Curving Pedestrian Bridge over Lake Shore Drive Also Bends Toward Justice -- Chicago's New "Shared Street" Tilts the Balance in Favor of Pedestrians, Cyclists, and Social Distancing, but It's Tinkering, not Structural Change -- Part Three. Architecture: Are Buildings Good Citizens? Tall Buildings: Highs and Lows -- 150 North Riverside May Look Like It's Teetering, but There's a Method to Its Madness -- When Bad Things Happen to a Good Architect: The Saga of 151 North Franklin -- A Celebrated New Yorker's New Chicago Tower: The Peak of Urban Luxury, not the Height of Skyscraper Style -- The Vista Tower, Now Chicago's Third-Tallest Building, Brings Stirring Curves and More to a Squared- Off Skyline -- Fifty Years Later, Lake Point Tower Is a Singular Achievement -- Let's Hope It Stays That Way -- Flagship Stores: From Fine-Graind to Flashy
• Publisher Details: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press
• Publication Date: 2022
• Copyright Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource (298 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 720.9773/11; Architecture -- Illinois -- Chicago; City planning -- Social aspects -- Illinois -- Chicago; City planning -- Illinois -- Chicago; HISTORY / General; Chicago (Ill.) -- Buildings, structures, etc
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780226822877; 0226822877
• Related ISBNs: 9780226822730; 0226822737
• Notes: Note: Includes index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (ProQuest Ebook Central platform, viewed January 30, 2023).
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.