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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.

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.

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Wednesday, June 04, 2008

Bill Richardson for VP!

OBAMA has said a few good things about urbanism. If he added Bill Richardson to the ticket, urbanists would be well represented. And they say Obama needs help with the Latin ticket.

UPDATE: Apparently everyone in Washington knows that Richardson won't be chosed because of "his woman problem." Too bad.

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True only if Richardson has truly set aside his early suggestion to pipe Great Lakes water to dry states. Real urbanism requires recognizing the limits of development, after all.

Posted by: Daniel at Jun 5, 2008 3:27:31 PM

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