Urbanism I

• Urban Planner
• married another elizabeth plater-zyberk (DPZ) 
• codesigned Seaside, Florida

• 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

written by Tridib Banerjee and William C. Baer

• 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 

• 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 

• high degree of order and formality 
• grid planning
• surrounded by agricultural land 
• central square in middle 
• ecample: Savannah, Georgia 

• designed by Geore Merrick 
• one of the earliest suburbs outside of Miami 
• connected to Miami by streetcars 

• sense of community is artificial but it has been disproven
• escapist

How many buildings/ people can be fit into a certain area while still providing a liveable lifestyle

• 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

• 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