This photo is an alley waterfall structure built in downtown Greensboro, NC. Chicago Tribune architecture critic Blair Kamin visited Greensboro in 2007, and ended his speech with the following directive:
"There’s an old saying: You get what you deserve. Well, we get the built environment we deserve, especially in a small city. Chicago, a big city, can take the occasional bad building; it fades into the woodwork. But here, every building counts; it has a disproportionate impact on the urban fabric. There is not a lot of room for error. So my advice to you is this: Seize every chance you get. Be bold. And absolutely, positively, do not accept mediocrity."
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