{"product_id":"who-is-the-city-for-architecture-equity-and-the-public-realm-in-chicago-hardcover","title":"Who Is the City For?: Architecture, Equity, and the Public Realm in Chicago - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBlair Kamin\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eLee Bey\u003c\/b\u003e (Photographer)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA 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. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003e Who Is the City For?\u003c\/i\u003e, does more than gather fifty-five of his most notable \u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eChicago Sun-Times\u003c\/i\u003e. 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eWho Is the City For?\u003c\/i\u003e powerfully demonstrates, often falls painfully short of that ideal.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBlair Kamin \u003c\/b\u003eis the author or editor of several books, including \u003ci\u003eWhy Architecture Matters: Lessons from Chicago\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTerror and Wonder: Architecture in a Tumultuous Age\u003c\/i\u003e, also published by the University of Chicago Press. The \u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e's architecture critic for 28 years, Kamin was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 1999. \u003cb\u003eLee Bey \u003c\/b\u003eis an editorial writer and architecture critic for the \u003ci\u003eChicago\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eSun-Times\u003c\/i\u003e and the author of \u003ci\u003eSouthern Exposure: The Overlooked Architecture of Chicago's South Side\u003c\/i\u003e. Previously former Chicago mayor Richard M. Daley's deputy chief of staff for architecture and urban planning, Bey has had photographs published in the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eArchitectural Digest\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 312\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 9.1 x 6.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 21, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51765900640544,"sku":"9780226822730","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/bf5e96b24f7c7e90975ec6a8bbf490f4.webp?v=1780282491","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/who-is-the-city-for-architecture-equity-and-the-public-realm-in-chicago-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}