Quote of the day

“A historic knockoff is better than a crappy sprawl building that tries to look like the suburbs,” he says. “[And] it’s not as big of a problem as a failed modernist building.”
-- John Norquist, ex-Mayor of Milwaukee, now CEO of the Congress for the New Urbanism.

From "Thoroughly Modern Whitney: Loved, hated and feared, Journal Sentinel architecture critic Whitney Gould has had a huge impact on the city’s sense of design. But the fiercely private person is an enigma.," an excellent piece in the Milwaukee Magazine about Whitney Gould, the urban design writer for the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel.