CityLab Daily: Can Cities Make Better Monuments?

Knocked off their pedestal: Amid America’s reckoning with historic racism, cities began removing controversial monuments to the nation’s colonial and Confederate past. Chicago had statues of Christopher Columbus taken down last year “temporarily” in the wake of anti-police violence protests. As leaders debated what to do with statues of complex figures like Abraham Lincoln and the founding fathers, the city created the Chicago Monuments Project – an advisory committee of civic leaders, …