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Davidson’s Rural Area Plan
Visionary code protects rural landsThe Rural Area Plan (RAP) for Davidson uses a form-based code for aggressive rural land conservation. Sixty-five percent of the countryside is preserved over six square miles, allowing for the development of compact hamlets and villages on one-third of the area. The plan was adopted in the spring...Read more -
Strategic Area Investment Plan
Landscape infrastructure shapes future investmentCharlottesville’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