Through [the old Penn Station] one entered the city like a God. Now one scuttles in like a rat. —Vincent Scully

The old Penn Station

Senator Pat Moynihan spent much of his last years fighting to create a new point of entry worthy of New York City, and now the proposed Moynihan Station has taken a big step toward becoming a reality.

This good news makes it a perfect day for our latest featured essay, in which John Norquist, the Mayor of Milwaukee from 1988 to 2004 and now the President and CEO of the Congress for the New Urbanism, takes a look at Nat Glazer's new From a Cause to a Style.

A rendering of Moynihan Station