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Andres Duany
- Urban Planner
- married another elizabeth plater-zyberk (DPZ)
- codesigned Seaside, Florida
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Automobile Suburbs
- began around 1920's when suburbs were developed outside of city center
- very homogeneous residential homes
- very dependent on automobile use
- in the past, lots were more compact because people were fine with smaller lots
- Ex: Phoenix suburbs or Marlemount Ohio
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Beyond the Neighborhood Unit
written by Tridib Banerjee and William C. Baer
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Clarence Perry
- Published the Regional Plan Association of New York in 1829
- designed to have a certain amount of units where everything was walking and functioned as one unit
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Cluster Zoning
- When you have a unique topography, you build clusters of houses on the most buildable land and leave the rest alone
- Problems with this:
- usually has to rely on one main road which leads to congestion
- doesn't fit into regional planning because it's so specific
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colonial towns and fronteir settlements
- high degree of order and formality
- grid planning
- surrounded by agricultural land
- central square in middle
- ecample: Savannah, Georgia
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Coral Gables, Florida
- designed by Geore Merrick
- one of the earliest suburbs outside of Miami
- connected to Miami by streetcars
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Criticisms of Planned communities
- sense of community is artificial but it has been disproven
- escapist
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Density
How many buildings/ people can be fit into a certain area while still providing a liveable lifestyle
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Ebenezer Howard
- 1898
- wrote garden cities of tomorrow
- introduced his idea of the ideal city where each section of the city was divided into rings surrounding the center
- one of the first ideas of regionalism with cities being decentralized
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Electric Streetcars
- allowed cities to double in size
- originated to central business districts and went out to suburbs
- people could go to work and travel around the city much easier
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