Chicago's 'Millennium Park Effect'
28 June 2005 - 11:00am
Chicago's Millennium Park is a 'theme park for adults' and is being hailed as an example of how civic leadership can get things done.
"In the national conversation, Millennium Park is being hailed in some quarters as an example of how business and political leaders can pull together -- in sharp contrast to the feuding among powerful interests that has turned the rebuilding of ground zero into a textbook case of civic inertia. 'One of the great new models for a new kind of urban park,' The New Yorker's architecture critic, Paul Goldberger, told television host Charlie Rose on Rose's show in May."
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The Millennium Park effect
Source:
The Chicago Tribune, June 27, 2005
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