City: Chicago
State/Province: Illinois
Country: United States

Scott Stewart, Executive Director, Millennium Park Foundation:
Few public space projects in the past 100 years have had a stronger impact on our ideas of how art and architecture can stimulate change in a city’s economy, change perceptions of collaboration throughout multiple professional fields, and change people’s lives than Millennium Park. The driving philosophy of Millennium Park has always been of a free, public, and equitably representative cultural space. This concept, and the Park’s design and operation, have inspired countless other cities and countries to study the Park for ideas about developing their own urban spaces, growing their own tourism economies, and creating a cultural heart for their own citizens.