PUBLIC SPACES: A BURST OF INNOVATION, WITH MIXED RESULTS ON EQUITY

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. INTRODUCTION 1
4. Part One Presidents and Their Legacy Projects: Self- Aggrandizing or Civic- Minded?
5. TRUMP TAKES AIM AT DESIGN AND THE DESIGN PRESS 11
6. THE OBAMA PRESIDENTIAL CENTER: NO WALK IN THE PARK 23
7. Part Two Urban Design: Boom Times for Cities, but Who Benefits?
8. URBANIZATION ON THE MARCH— AND ON HOLD BECAUSE OF THE PANDEMIC 33
9. PUBLIC SPACES: A BURST OF INNOVATION, WITH MIXED RESULTS ON EQUITY 59
10. TRANSIT AND INFRASTRUCTURE: AFTER A BUMPY START, SOLID ADVANCES 78
11. Part Three Architecture: Are Buildings Good Citizens?
12. TALL BUILDINGS: HIGHS AND LOWS 97
13. FLAGSHIP STORES, FROM FINE- GRAINED TO FLASHY 121
14. MUSEUMS: REACTING AGAINST, AND REACHING BEYOND, “STARCHITECTURE” 133
15. PUBLIC BUILDINGS: THE BENEFITS— AND LIMITS— OF GOOD DESIGN 145
16. Part Four Historic Preservation: What Gets Saved and Why?
17. WHO SHOULD DETERMINE A BUILDING’S FATE— THE EXPERTS, THE COMMUNITY, OR THE CLOUT- HEAVY? 163
18. THE STRUGGLE TO SAVE— AND BETTER UNDERSTAND— BUILDINGS OF THE RECENT PAST 179
19. PRESERVING BUILDINGS OF THE DISTANT PAST: YESTERDAY’S DESIGNS, SOME VIEWED AS RADICAL, ARE TODAY’S CLASSICS 197
20. Part Five Two Mayors, Two Directions: Who Can Make the City Work for All?
21. RAHM EMANUEL: RETROSPECTIVE AND CLIMACTIC BATTLE 225
22. LORI LIGHTFOOT AND MAURICE COX: DETROIT PRELUDE AND CHICAGO BLUEPRINT 250
23. EPILOGUE the end of A Journalistic era— And What Comes next? 267
24. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 275
25. INDEX 279