Who Is the City For?: Architecture, Equity, and the Public Realm in Chicago

CONTENTS\nINTRODUCTION\nPart One Presidents and Their Legacy Projects: Self- Aggrandizing or Civic- Minded?\nTRUMP TAKES AIM AT DESIGN AND THE DESIGN PRESS\nTHE OBAMA PRESIDENTIAL CENTER: NO WALK IN THE PARK\nPart Two Urban Design: Boom Times for Cities, but Who Benefits?\nURBANIZATION ON THE MARCH— AND ON HOLD BECAUSE OF THE PANDEMIC\nPUBLIC SPACES: A BURST OF INNOVATION, WITH MIXED RESULTS ON EQUITY\nTRANSIT AND INFRASTRUCTURE: AFTER A BUMPY START, SOLID ADVANCES\nPart Three Architecture: Are Buildings Good Citizens?\nTALL BUILDINGS: HIGHS AND LOWS\nFLAGSHIP STORES, FROM FINE- GRAINED TO FLASHY\nMUSEUMS: REACTING AGAINST, AND REACHING BEYOND, “STARCHITECTURE”\nPUBLIC BUILDINGS: THE BENEFITS— AND LIMITS— OF GOOD DESIGN\nPart Four Historic Preservation: What Gets Saved and Why?\nWHO SHOULD DETERMINE A BUILDING’S FATE— THE EXPERTS, THE COMMUNITY, OR THE CLOUT- HEAVY?\nTHE STRUGGLE TO SAVE— AND BETTER UNDERSTAND— BUILDINGS OF THE RECENT PAST\nPRESERVING BUILDINGS OF THE DISTANT PAST: YESTERDAY’S DESIGNS, SOME VIEWED AS RADICAL, ARE TODAY’S CLASSICS\nPart Five Two Mayors, Two Directions: Who Can Make the City Work for All?\nRAHM EMANUEL: RETROSPECTIVE AND CLIMACTIC BATTLE\nLORI LIGHTFOOT AND MAURICE COX: DETROIT PRELUDE AND CHICAGO BLUEPRINT\nEPILOGUE the end of A Journalistic era— And What Comes next?\nACKNOWLEDGMENTS\nINDEX