.BlairKamin is coming out with a new book, featuring photos by LEEBEY - hear them talk about the book, equity in urban design in Chicago, and coming projects and spaces to watch:
in early 2021. A lofty goal, but one which at least the Pulitzer committee thought he fulfilled, awarding him a Pulitzer Prize in 1999 particularly for his series exploring the vast inequities of Chicago’s lakefront public space.Who Is the City For?
urban planning initiative, the possibilities of public space, and places to watch over the coming years. A big theme of the book is equity—how do you think the city has done on equity over the past decade?: I don't think the city under Rahm Emanuel did good enough on equity. I think there were isolated projects that attempted to address the issue of equity, but they tended to be one-offs.
The big picture, if you step back, is that the city has become more polarized economically and more a tale of two cities. You've got the glamorous city epitomized by the Bean. And then you've got this other city where the middle class has shrunk, where there are more poor people. And there's this real gulf between the two cities, whereas before, as recently as like 30 years ago, Chicago had many more middle class neighborhoods.
Design can open the door to certain outcomes—people mixing together, people working more efficiently—but ultimately, it can't do it all by itself. Architecture is a social art, but anyone who thinks that it will instantly result in a better world is fooling themselves and is really setting themselves up for unrealistic expectations.: I don’t know…I think both of us believe passionately in the power of design to help—keyword “help”—make a better world, but it cannot do it by itself.
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