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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).

I'm a Board Member of the Congress for New Urbanism, the former Chair of CNU New York and a former Director of the Institute of Classical Art & Architecture and Federated Conservationists of Westchester County.

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Saturday, October 15, 2011

Phillippe Starck Apartment in Paris on airbnb

WE STAYED in a very nice studio on the rue des Saints Péres on the Left Bank. The dollar is down, so it wasn't cheap, but it cost less than many Left Bank three-star hotels (and much less than some). We found it on airbnb.

The room was pleasant, the small terrace was great, and I loved the location, which was between Sèvres-Babylone and Saint-Sulpice on the Métro. Saint-Sulpice is one of my favorite Parisian squares, but I had never before explored the great streets between the square and the Luxembourg Gardens.

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