Millennium Park
Creating a Chicago Landmark
- Contents
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List of Appendixes
Preface
Part I - History
1. Before Grant Park
2. Creating Grant Park
3. The Grant Park Problem
Part II - Politics
4. Skidmore, Owings & Merrill’s Master Plan
5. Shooting for the Moon
6. Art in the Park
7. The Culture Broker
8. A Theater in the Park
9. The Modern Medicis
10. Conflict and Controversy
11. Defining Art
Part III - Culture
12. Constructing Millennium Park
13. Vermeer in Chicago: The Jay Pritzker Pavilion and BP Bridge
14. The Joan W. and Irving B. Harris Theater for Music and Dance
15. Cloud Gate
16. The Crown Fountain
17. The Lurie Garden
18. The Subtle Amenities of Millennium Park
Conclusion: The Multiple Meanings of Millenniumo-bidi-font-family: ’Courier New’" Park
Acknowledgments
Appendixes
Frequently Used Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Illustration Credits
Index
“Millennium Park is fascinating—and gorgeous. Its 474 pages are adorned with color images. They’re worth the $45 sticker price alone. . . . [Gilfoyle] knows how to tell a good story, and he has one here. . . . His research and his interviews uncovered a series of lucky breaks and wily moves that made Millennium Park possible, and then filled it with spectacular works of art.”
“[A] high-stakes game of push-and-pull forms the dramatic core of historian Timothy J. Gilfoyle’s absorbing and lavishly illustrated Millennium Park. Gilfoyle frames the park’s gestation as a titanic struggle between public and private interests.”
“Gilfoyle captures all the soaring architectural drama, petty human squabbling, and commendable leadership behind the city’s newest civic jewel.”
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