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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.

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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Thursday, January 25, 2007

Singular no more

Never mind what Stephen Colbert says, I was happier with Cingular than back when I had their AT&T cell service. But the history of Cingular does show the way my generation has gotten rich through unproductive churning.

Building cell phone companies? A valuable service. Buying, selling and buying companies again? Not so much.

PS: I like the new black, the bouncing man, and I'll probably buy an iPhone.

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Indeed, profits incur taxes. OTOH, M&A increases corporate worth without increasing profits. By shuffling the coconuts it's posssible to increase wealth without having to increase income. It's the only reason to stay in any business who's operating margins are less than that of the current interest rate available from a savings account.

Posted by: Ken H at Feb 2, 2007 8:31:57 PM

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