Why architecture matters : lessons from Chicago / Blair Kamin.

_ The Evolving Metropolis -- The Mediocre Mile -- The Mayor´s Maypole: Boul Mich Pylon Plan Reason to Hoist Warning Flags -- Twice Cursed: Rehabbed Marriott Is Miles and Miles from Magnificent -- Faking History: Disney´s Make-Believe Architecture Is Just What Michigan Avenue Doesn´t Need -- That Comeback Street -- Stately Street: Retro Renovation Puts a Once-Great Shopping Mecca on the Road to Economic and Aesthetic Recovery -- An Elevating Station: Avoiding the Tunnel Vision of the Past, the Airy Renovation of the State/Roosevelt Subway Stop Sets a Zesty Standard -- Building a Better Block 37: Good Intentions Simply Aren´t Enough for High-Stakes State Street Project -- Public Works and the Public Realm -- Updating the Dark Ages: Daley´s Walled-Neighborhoods Plan Would Do Much to Hurt the City and Little to Stop Crime -- The Bridges of Cook County: Design Enhances Engineering in Citywide Project -- Triumphal Arches: Damen Avenue Bridge Is a Modern-Day Beauty -- Making the Past a Part of the Future -- Tumbling Legacy: Shortsighted Moves by the City Have the Potential to Send Architectural Gems Toppling Like Dominoes -- Vertical Triumph: Reliance Building Restoration Is a Vote for Old Glory -- Crumbling Icons: Some of Frank Lloyd Wright´s Greatest Buildings Are Falling Apart, but the Bigger Question Is--What Can We Do to Save Them? -- Suburbanizing the City -- City-Escape: A New, Schlocky Brand of Architecture Promotes a Chicago that Never Was -- Populist Playground: Navy Pier Has Shaped Up, but Aesthetics Have Been Shipped Out.