North Side streets: which best show the new Chgo?

If you were going to take an out-of-town visitor down North Sides streets, which streets would you choose that best shows the enormous transformation of the city's North Side? I'm talking about streets north of Division (and North Avenue is a bit of a question...it still has a downtown nature to it). Which ones would be best going: north/south? east/west? diagonal? My choices: north/south: Damen or Halsted (Halsted for degree of change in different areas...it's a street that transforms itself) and Damen for how a young, creative, artistic Chicago develops east/west: (eliminating North Ave) Diversey, perhaps Fullerton (Diversey, to me, almost is unidentifiable ever three or four months; that's a new city they're developing there) diagonal: Lincoln or Clybourn (Lincoln is narrow and dense, feeling more and more urban all the time; Clybourn for how Chicago retail is developing. While less about change and more about the differing worlds of Chicago as you get closer to the core, I'd have to throw in Milw)>