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Millennium Park: Creating a Chicago Landmark
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Millennium Park: Creating a Chicago Landmark Hardback - 2006

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Part park, part outdoor art museum, part cultural center, and part performance space, Chicago's Millennium Park is an unprecedented combination of architecture, sculpture, and landscaping. Gilfoyle presents a lavish testament to the park.

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At its opening on July 16, 2004, Chicago's Millennium Park was hailed as one of the most important millennium projects in the world. "Politicians come and go; business leaders come and go," proclaimed mayor Richard M. Daley, "but artists really define a city." Part park, part outdoor art museum, part cultural center, and part performance space, Millennium Park is now an unprecedented combination of distinctive architecture, monumental sculpture, and innovative landscaping. Including structures and works by Frank Gehry, Anish Kapoor, Jaume Plensa, and Kathryn Gustafson, the park represents the collaborative efforts of hundreds to turn an unused railroad yard in the heart of the city into a world-class civic space--and, in the process, to create an entirely new kind of cultural philanthropy.

Timothy Gilfoyle here offers a biography of this phenomenal undertaking, beginning 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 testament 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 globalization of art, the use of culture as an engine of economic expansion, and the nature of political and philanthropic power.

Born out of civic idealism, raised in political controversy, and maturing into a
symbol of the new Chicago, Millennium Park is truly a twenty-first-century
landmark, and it now has the history it deserves.

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  • Title Millennium Park: Creating a Chicago Landmark
  • Author Timothy J. Gilfoyle
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First edition
  • Pages 474
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 2006-06
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780226293493 / 0226293491
  • Weight 3.55 lbs (1.61 kg)
  • Dimensions 10.2 x 9.22 x 1.24 in (25.91 x 23.42 x 3.15 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Cultural Region: Midwest
    • Cultural Region: Upper Midwest
    • Geographic Orientation: Illinois
    • Locality: Chicago, Illinois
  • Category History - U.S.
  • Library of Congress subjects Chicago (Ill.) - History, Millennium Park (Chicago, Ill.) - History
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2005034630
  • Dewey Decimal Code 977.311

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  • New York Times, 08/06/2006, Page 7

About the author

Timothy J. Gilfoyle is professor of history at Loyola University Chicago. The author of City of Eros and, most recently, APickpocket's Tale, Gilfoyle also writes a regular column for Chicago History magazine.
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