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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seaside,_Florida

Seaside is an unincorporated master-planned community on the Florida Panhandle in Walton County, between Panama City Beach and Destin. One of the first communities in America designed on the principles of New Urbanism, the town has become the topic of slide lectures in architectural schools and in housing-industry magazines, and is visited by design professionals from all over the United States.[2]

The town was used as the main filming location of the 1998 film The Truman Show.[7]

Seaside is one of three planned communities on Florida's Gulf coast designed by Andrés Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk. The other two are Rosemary Beach and Alys Beach. The three are examples of a style of urban planning known as New Urbanism. As Seaside is privately owned, no other municipal governments had planning jurisdiction over Seaside, and therefore the developers were able to write their own zoning codes.[8]

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9s_Duany

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[–] Parsani@hexbear.net 18 points 2 years ago

It's actually illegal to do any kind of urban planning in Florida if you aren't a fascist

[–] happybadger@hexbear.net 16 points 2 years ago

Every Man a Lighthouse Keeper

[–] culpritus@hexbear.net 15 points 2 years ago

Duany was born in New York City but grew up in Cuba until 1960.

architecture firm based in Miami, Florida

yea

[–] Llituro@hexbear.net 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

New Urbanism makes me want to kill myself when i'm near it, i went to one in a college course and told my bourgeois (using it correctly) professor that it gave me the creeps

[–] What_Religion_R_They@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If you don't mind, can you explain why you dislike New Urbanism? Or suggest anything read up on.

[–] Llituro@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago

well i mean i think all the nazism in the op is a great read, but to put it simply, the vibes are just fucked. it has the scale of urban areas but it feels like it's in an uncanny valley where all the buildings are just a bit too similar, where you can feel that you're supposed to imagine this is a mixed community but it is clearly just a spectacle for a certain kind of bourgeois and petit bourgeois. it's like a simulacrum of an urban area.

Matt Gaetz and his dad live there. I guess a cat 5 hurricane is too much to hope for

[–] wtypstanaccount04@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago

Holy shit i had no idea Seaside was partially based off of nazi shit