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Beachside : Windsor architecture and design
\"Tropical living at its most chic. The planned community of Windsor, on a barrier island in Vero Beach, Florida, offers elegant-yet-casual seaside living at its best. This sublimely landscaped village, planned by the renowned New Urbanists Andrés Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, boasts houses by A-list architects and top interior designers, among them John Stefanidis, Steven Gambrel, and Alessandra Branca. The exteriors, Anglo-Caribbean in style, feature steeply pitched roofs, open eaves, cantilevered balconies, and palm-shaded courtyards and pools. The interiors, all executed with exquisite craftsmanship and appointed with fine finishes, range in style from traditional to sleekly contemporary. Beachside presents a wide array of the houses, organized by room. Filled with photographs of bougainvillea-framed entrances, airy open-plan living-dining rooms, cozy studies, and bedrooms that open onto balconies with sweeping ocean views, Beachside will inspire anyone yearning for a stylish coastal life\"--Publisher's description.
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New Urbanism/Smart Growth in the Scottish Highlands
The paper draws on recent theorising on policy mobility and post-politics to investigate the planning of a New Urbanist settlement, Tornagrain, near Inverness in the Scottish Highlands, and designed by Andres Duany. It details Duany's role as an influential 'persuasive guru' of New Urbanism and his signatory charrette as a participatory method for engaging local citizens into the New Urbanist model of place-making. Nonetheless, the Tornagrain case raises non-trivial questions about this model, not least the faith being placed in a globally mobile policy evangelist becoming, in effect, a doctrinal conduit for convening local democracy. The paper then contributes to recent debate on post-political planning, particularly in terms of how latent expressions of dissent in local planning processes often appear to be deamplified through endeavours to forge a post-political consensus, in part to masquerade rent hikes and profiteering on behalf of powerful landowners, glitzy architects, consultants and other associates.
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How Smart Has Smart Growth Been?
Smart Growth refers to urban design and transportation planning agendas which its adherents believe create vibrant, high density urban centers with an ever decreasing dependency on the automobile. Smart Growth is promoted as a panacea for an increasingly wide range of urban and social challenges, with its agenda now permeating many of the planning departments in cities and regional districts throughout North America. Today many bureaucrats and politicians are beholden to this agenda.
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SmartCode: Do it again, get it right: Three-day workshop attracts about 300
Mar. 3--BILOXI -- SmartCode advocates began a three-day workshop Thursday to help about 300 attendees get a handle on the new approach to zoning that several South Mississippi municipalities appear ready to turn to in Hurricane Katrina's wake. SmartCode is a land development ordinance incorporating zoning, subdivision regulation, urban design and basic architectural stands into one document. Its goal is to create walkable communities featuring mixed-use neighborhoods and conservation of open lands.
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Architects, engineers to plan reconstruction of Gulf Coast
Last week, after [Andres Duany] met with Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, Leland Speed, executive director of the Mississippi Development Authority, announced that New Urbanists had offered their services for rebuilding the Mississippi Gulf Coast for \"anywhere from totally free to partially free.\" The architects will work for a fraction of their typical fee, Duany said. The prospect of New Urbanists leading rebuilding efforts in Mississippi and in New Orleans -- another New Urbanist group headed by former Milwaukee Mayor John Norquist, president of the New Urbanism group, is being assembled to aid reconstruction there, Duany said -- offers a very different picture from the rebuilding of Ground Zero in New York. In Mississippi, he said, nine teams of New Urbanists will be based in heavily damaged Biloxi. The architects will explore the reconstruction of Biloxi and fan out to other hard-hit areas along the coast, Duany said. Their goal will be to create more durable buildings and more walkable communities, using new building codes and re-designs of stock buildings like the mobile home.
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Business BRIEFS
Mar. 18--Architect Duany to lead Seaside seminarSEASIDE -- Architect and planner Andres Duany will lead a seminar on new urban development on March 23-25.
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Couple honored for urban planning
\"I speak about Charleston (to other people) all the time,\" [Andres Duany] says. \"We became urbanists because of the genetics of the Charleston side house.\" The Lowcountry's influence continued through DPZ's later developments such as Windsor in Vero Beach, Fla.. and Seaside, Fla., also known as the setting where the movie \"The Truman Show\" was filmed. Locally, the firm is best known for helping to shape Mount Pleasant's I'On neighborhood. Duany said many successful modern buildings, such as London's 30 St Mary Axe tower (commonly known as the \"Gherkin\"), are imbedded in traditional urban fabric. \"Modern architects should figure out how they can make an urbanism of their own,\" he added. \"It's not about style, it's about context.\"
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'New Urbanism' star at Rollins
If a musical act like Arcade Fire wins a Grammy Award for its Suburbs album -- with tracks like Sprawl I and Sprawl II -- shouldn't a community planner like Andres Duany be some sort of rock star? He is -- inside planning circles at least. And Duany is at Rollins College today at 7 p.m. in the Bush Auditorium.
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FIFE IMITATING ART
Lochgelly's a long way from the Sunshine State, but [Andres Duany] is far more than a Hollywood set designer. He's one of the world's most respected town planners. Councillor John Beare, who chairs Fife Council's planning committee, said: \"This is a oncein-a-lifetime opportunity. I can't stress enough how exciting this is for Lochgelly and [Fife]. As he enjoyed a pint in Torleys Bar, John McCauley, 56, said: \"It's something that's urgently required here, so I don't think you will find much dissent.
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How to fix dysfunctional urban sprawl
\"Because what was built was normative, you can learn to retrofit a subdivision. A strip mall,\" he said. \"This is a precise disaster with a very precise solution.\" \"Sixty percent of what we have in America is dysfunctional suburban sprawl,\" he said. However, \"its not so dysfunctional that we can abandon all that.\" \"It isnt the green buildings that make an area green,\" he said. \"Those buildings have to be within walking distance to public transportation, to other facilities.\"
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