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Name and location of repository
Level of description
Item
Title
Village of San Sebastian; Miami-Dade County, Florida
Date(s)
- April 2004 (Creation)
Extent
1 copy
Name of creator
Administrative history
DPZ was founded in 1980 by Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk as an architectural practice. Identifying the deficiencies of the suburban context for their early buildings led to a rediscovery of neighborhood structure and influenced the design of Seaside, acclaimed for its traditional town plan, streetscapes and buildings.
Recognizing the need for an alternative to suburban zoning, the firm proposed a re-integration of urban components with the Traditional Neighborhood Development (TND) in 1990. The TND became a model regulation for compact mixed-use neighborhood design, informing hundreds of municipal ordinances throughout the country.
With several new communities well underway, Duany and Plater-Zyberk joined contemporaries to found the Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU) in 1993. CNU’s charter, annual meetings and numerous policy initiatives, are guiding an international movement of sustainable urban growth and community design. The firm’s subsequent initiatives have generated documents that reflect DPZ’s commitment to ‘open source’ – the Lexicon, SmartCode, Transect, Lean Urbanism, Sprawl Repair, Light Imprint, among them.
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Scope and content
A plan for the Village of San Sebastian: Something New Under the Sun. Embracing the Jeffersonian ideal of an "academic village" and the essential principles of New Urbanism, MAMCO seeks to establish on the South Campus property an innovative concept in planned communities. Both imaginative and practical in scope, the design for the new South Campus, called the Village of San Sebastian, will capitalize on UM's reputation for education excellence and civic involvement to development an amazing planned community.