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I like all sorts of towns, cities and buildings, but what I design are Classical buildings and Traditional towns and cities. You can see some of them at www.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). With Victor Dover, I am writing Street Design, The Art & Practice of Making Complete Streets (J. Wiley & Sons, 2013).

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Sunday, June 20, 2004

The Truth Is Out There II — The Swarm

David Sucher, the author of City Comforts, is going to organize the swarm for a visit to Rem Koolhaas's new Seattle Public Library. Should be interesting. Contact him.

UPDATED June 29: David Sucher has posted his notes at the City Comforts blog.

UPDATED June 26: a visit to the library by a software engineer

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