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Who Is the City For? - Architecture, Equity, and the Public Realm in Chicago (Hardcover)
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Who Is the City For? - Architecture, Equity, and the Public Realm in Chicago (Hardcover)
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A vividly illustrated collaboration between two of Chicago's most
celebrated architecture critics casts a wise and unsparing eye on
inequities in the built environment and attempts to rectify them.
From his high-profile battles with Donald Trump to his insightful
celebrations of Frank Lloyd Wright and front-page takedowns of
Chicago mega-projects like Lincoln Yards, Pulitzer Prize-winning
architecture critic Blair Kamin has long informed and delighted
readers with his illuminating commentary. Kamin's newest
collection, Who Is the City For?, does more than gather fifty-five
of his most notable Chicago Tribune columns from the past decade:
it pairs his words with striking new images by photographer and
architecture critic Lee Bey, Kamin's former rival at the Chicago
Sun-Times. Together, they paint a revealing portrait of Chicago
that reaches beyond its glamorous downtown and dramatic buildings
by renowned architects like Jeanne Gang to its culturally diverse
neighborhoods, including modest structures associated with storied
figures from the city's Black history, such as Emmett Till. At the
book's heart is its expansive approach to a central concept in
contemporary political and architectural discourse: equity. Kamin
argues for a broad understanding of the term, one that prioritizes
both the shared spaces of the public realm and the urgent need to
rebuild Black and brown neighborhoods devastated by decades of
discrimination and disinvestment. "At best," he writes in the
book's introduction, "the public realm can serve as an equalizing
force, a democratizing force. It can spread life's pleasures and
confer dignity, irrespective of a person's race, income, creed, or
gender. In doing so, the public realm can promote the social
contract - the notion that we are more than our individual selves,
that our common humanity is made manifest in common ground." Yet
the reality in Chicago, as Who Is the City For? powerfully
demonstrates, often falls painfully short of that ideal.
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