Creating a Chicago Landmark: Millennium Park
From Amazon.com: Timothy Gilfoyle here offers a biography of this phenomenal undertaking, begining before 1850 when the site of the park, the "city's front yard," was part of Lake Michigan. Gilfoyle studied the history of downtown; spent years with the planners, artists, and public officials behind Millennium Park; documented it at every stage of its construction; and traced the skeins of financing through municipal government, global corporations, private foundations, and wealthy civic leaders. The result is a thoroughly readable and lavishly illustrated treatment to the park, the city, and all those attempting to think and act on a monumental scale. And underlying Gilfoyle's history is also a revealing study of the gobalization of art, the use of culture as an engine of economic expansion, and the nature of political and philanthropic power. Hardcover, 480 pages.
