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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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Friday, February 17, 2012

Because the problem young women in America have is too much love and too few anonymous, palate-cleanser* one-night stands

THE MOST RECENT EPISODES of two television shows about the lives of young women - New Girl and Dating Rules From My Future Self - proselytize for women having anonymous sex.

Descriptions after the jump

* 'He was the sorbet."

"She's right, one night only and then he melts."

"I don't know, I'm just. I'm so glad I did it, it made me feel ...

"Empowered?"

"Multi=orgasmic?"

"Normal." 

February 17, 2012 in Culture, Current Affairs, Quote of the Day, Television | Permalink

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