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Town Planners

For more than 20 years, noted architects, Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk have spearheaded the nation's most exciting movement in urban planning. Known as New Urbanism, the movement's principles promote the revival of traditional ideas for livable, human scale communities while skillfully designing the future.

Since designing Florida's highly successful Seaside in 1980, this dynamic husband and wife team and their firm have created designs for new towns and urban redevelopment projects in more than 200 north American communities from British Columbia to South Carolina to Rhode Island and world wide from Australia to Turkey to Jamaica.

As clearly evidenced in every detail at Celadon, Duany Plater-Zyberk projects respect natural environments, invite residents of all ages, put people before automobiles and skillfully balance the need for privacy with desire for community.

Both educated at Princeton and Yale, Plater-Zyberk and Duany teach at the University of Miami School of Architecture, where Plater-Zyberk is dean. Andres Duany also teaches planning at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Notable among DPZ'z own publications are Suburban Nation: The Rise of the Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream; The New Civic Art, and the forthcoming Smart Growth Manual.

In recognition of exemplary practice and scholarship in architecture planning and urban design, Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk have been awarded the National Building Museum's prestigious Vincent J. Scully Prize for the year 2001 and The Thomas Jefferson Memorial Medal of Excellence.

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