A revival already??!

"Starchitect" is so 2003, but a revival already? That's too much.

Iconic architecture is credited with bringing people downtown:

"This phenomenon has generated "a trickle-down effect" and Ms Osmond's foundation has capitalised on the new interest in architecture by organising 65,000 tours a year in Chicago, the city where the first skyscrapers were built."

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"But Ms de Vulder said the priority was to organise city tours because they would attract a wider range of people. This would depend on training volunteers, following the Chicago model, to lead the tours."

After all

"the more people involved, the greater the energy."

Why such misplaced emphasis on architecture? It's people showing off their city that's attracting people, not the building itself. And here's a refresher on how Gehry's design doesn't revitalize Bilbao, with the exception of putting the city on the map with his name. Sell the name, but don't sell me on the idea that the building is bringing people downtown.