• Strategic Area Investment Plan

    Landscape infrastructure shapes future investment
    Charlottesville’s Strategic Area Investment Plan guides the redevelopment of a former industrial stream valley into a mixed-income, mixeduse urban area that remains connected to its riparian roots. A 12-acre linear ecological park incorporates new stormwater systems while creating multifunctional...Read more

  • Alys Beach

    After designing Seaside and Rosemary Beach, DPZ CoDESIGN had the opportunity to plan a third community along the Florida Gulf Coast in 2003. Alys Beach further developed the principles of New Urbanism and was styled after the architecture of Bermuda and Antigua. The town is colored the same sugar-...Read more

  • Celebration

    Before he died, Walt Disney proposed the idea for an “Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow,” or “EPCOT,” in which technology would seamlessly mix with day-to-day life. He never saw that idea put into effect, but in the early 1990’s, Walt Disney Company CEO Michael Eisner decided to expand...Read more

  • Hampstead

    DPZ CoDESIGN has been at the forefront of New Urbanism since its beginning, and in 2003 the firm (then called Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company) led the creation of the SmartCode. The SmartCode is a form-based land-use code founded on the rural-to-urban Transect and set up to enable the development...Read more