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"Hello, my name is John. I'm a recovering architect."

I like all sorts of towns, cities and buildings, but what I design are Classical buildings and Traditional cities. You can see some of them at architect.massengale.com.

With Robert A.M. Stern I wrote a history of architecture and urbanism in the Progressive Era, New York 1900, Metropolitan Architecture and Urbanism 1890–1915 (Rizzoli, 1983) as well as an introduction to the history of suburbia before sprawl, The Anglo–American Suburb (St. Martin's Press, 1981). I have a grant to write Do The Right Thing: Architecture, Urbanism, Democracy, the Zeitgeist & the Soul.

I'm a Director of the Institute of Classical Architecture & Classical America, the Chair of CNU New York a Founding Member of the Congress for the New Urbanism, and a co-founder of the New Urban and Traditional Architecture Councils.

I was also a co-founder of the pro-urb list, a forum on the internet for an advanced discussion of New Urbanism. And in this blog you will find some postings from that list, along with other writings and clippings on architecture, urbanism, Classicism, Tradition, metaphysics and culture.


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Friday, April 09, 2004

Gas Taxes

Over at the City Comforts blog and Andrew Sullivan's blog they've been talking about gas prices. And, of course, gas taxes, because the two go hand in hand.

One of the main reasons we have California's new Governator is that the old governor wanted to raise gas taxes. Here's what George Bush thinks. Oh, those wacky bicycle riders!

Colin Powell said before 9/11 that if we wanted to maintain our SUV, drive-everywhere lifestyle, we should expect Middle Eastern wars.

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I thought the old governor wanted to raise the car tax, not the gas tax. As it stands, doesn't California already have the highest gas prices in the US?

I never fail to be shocked that California still does not have an extensive public transport system. They clearly need it.

Posted by: lindenen at Apr 10, 2004 6:43:23 PM

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