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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.

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Sunday, November 28, 2004

Boston Before & After Plans

Bfplans

“The Obsolete Neighborhood” (above, left) torn down in 1963 is what the best planners today would design. “The New Plan” (above, right) is the Tower In The Parking Lot invented by Le Corbusier three decades earlier. La plus ça change . . .

November 28, 2004 in Architecture, Classicism, New Urbanism, Urbanism, Weblogs | Permalink

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