• Addison Circle Addison retrofitted streetscape

    Addison Circle

    A pioneer in suburban retrofit
    In the early 1990s, Addison, Texas community officials identified the lack of a coherent core as a major inhibitor to sustainable town growth. In a public/private initiative, the community took on a community vision process which envisioned a mixed-use downtown for the Dallas suburb—developing...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
  • Rooftops of Seaside

    Seaside

    In 1946, J.S. Smolian bought 80 acres of land along the Florida Gulf Coast with the dream of developing the land into a summer camp. Though his dream was never realized, he vacationed on this land every year with his family. Years later, in 1978, his grandson Robert Davis was deeded his grandfather...Read more