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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 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). I have a grant to write Do The Right Thing: Architecture, Urbanism, Democracy, the Zeitgeist & the Soul.

I'm the Chair of CNU New York a Founding Member of the Congress for the New Urbanism, a former Director of the Institute of Classical Architecture & Classical America and Federated Conservationists of Westchester County, 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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Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Mayor LaGuardia's The ABC of City Planning

ABC-PDownload The ABC of City Planning

The Citizens Housing & Planning Council scanned a copy of Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia's 1937 The ABC of City Planning. You can download a PDF copy at their website or from the link above.

J—is for jumble     
    Caused only by man
Who recklessly built
    Without a good plan

found at www.chpcny.org/

November 23, 2011 in Architecture, Books, Classicism, Culture, Education, History, New York, Urbanism | Permalink

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