Milwaukee's Mayor, John Norquist, who succeeded this year in securing City Council approval and more than $20 million in federal money to tear down a 3/4 mile highway running through the city's center will give a lecture at Cooper Union in November entitled "Downtowns in America in the 21st Century."

Mayor Norquist's highway-removal initiative has received some national attention. Norquist was cited in the NY Times this summer, stating "the urban superhighway should be relegated to the scrap heap of history."

The free lecture will be in Cooper Union's Great Hall, 7 East 7th Street (at 3rd Ave.) Thursday, November 4 at 8:00pm. Information: (212) 353-4195.