Chicago's 'Millennium Park Effect'

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.

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June 28, 2005, 11:00 AM PDT

By Brenda Meyer

"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."

Thanks to Brenda Meyer

FULL STORY: The Millennium Park effect

Monday, June 27, 2005 in The Chicago Tribune

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