Dialogue: "Who Is the City For? Architecture, Equity, and the Public Realm in Chicago"

Link / Additional Info

Chicago’s architectural legacy includes a civic ideal that has produced prized public spaces. Yet for many of the city’s Black and Brown residents, these spaces were—and, in some cases, continue to be—inferior to spaces used by white and affluent Chicagoans, and gentrification near new public spaces has made adjoining neighborhoods unaffordable for many longtime residents. This conversation explores the past, present, and future of the public use of Chicago’s built environment. It features three of Chicago’s preeminent voices on public space in the city, Lee Bey, Blair Kamin, and Laurie Petersen, collaborators on the new book "Who Is the City For? Architecture, Equity, and the Public Realm in Chicago" (The University of Chicago Press, 2022).