{"id":2699,"date":"2011-11-02T13:34:25","date_gmt":"2011-11-02T13:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/?p=2699"},"modified":"2019-11-20T07:50:10","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T12:50:10","slug":"its-a-seaside-world-we-just-live-in-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/2011\/11\/its-a-seaside-world-we-just-live-in-it\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s a Seaside World, We Just Live in It"},"content":{"rendered":"

This year, Seaside is 30 years old and whatever you think of Andres Duany and the Congress for New Urbanism, any observer of urbanism must admit that Seaside has changed the vocabulary.<\/p>\n

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Seaside wasn’t developed, it was founded<\/p><\/div>\n

The pattern of main street, grid streets, mixed facades, and public space is part of every Federal Realty project and appears on our own Ellsworth Street.<\/p>\n

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pedestrian space, vaguely retro and articulated architecture, terminated view<\/p><\/div>\n

Along Florida’s Gulf Coast, Seaside neighbors Rosemary Beach<\/a>, Alys Beach<\/a>, and the Watercolor resort have picked up the vocabulary and created a sense of place, community, and style along the coast road, 30A<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Duany etal have identified a fundamental human pleasure in strolling a certain type of built space, and have, most importantly, made that space marketable. From Seaside to Kentlands, CNU-style real estate comes in at a high price point and holds its value.<\/p>\n

Duany’s strongest message has been empiricism–using experience and evidence to form a community plan–most particularly, American experience and evidence. Planners and designers\u00a0look wistfully at St. Mark’s Square but the American town, from New England to California, is a perfectly workable and pleasing model.<\/p>\n

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Steeple, clock tower, or grand stair, signal a building for the community<\/p><\/div>\n

Paths, porch swings, front doors,\u00a0a civic buildng, church or otherwise are the small physical markers of human community.<\/p>\n

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howdy neighbor<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This year, Seaside is 30 years old and whatever you think of Andres Duany and the Congress for New Urbanism, any observer of urbanism must admit that Seaside has changed the vocabulary.<\/p>\n

The pattern of main street, grid streets, mixed facades, and public space is part of every Federal Realty project and appears on our own Ellsworth Street.<\/p>\n

Along Florida’s Gulf Coast, Seaside neighbors Rosemary Beach, Alys Beach, and the Watercolor resort have picked up the vocabulary and created a sense of place, community, and style along the coast road, 30A.<\/p>\n

Duany etal have identified a fundamental human pleasure in strolling a certain type of built space, and have, most importantly, made that space marketable. From Seaside to Kentlands, … Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3,5],"tags":[316,318,315,314,321,320,317,313,7,319],"class_list":["post-2699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-design","category-planning","tag-30a","tag-alys-beach","tag-cnu","tag-congress-for-new-urbanism","tag-ellsworth-street","tag-kentlands","tag-rosemary-beach","tag-seaside","tag-silver-spring","tag-south-walton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2699"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6338,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2699\/revisions\/6338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}