{"id":2716,"date":"2011-11-09T20:03:05","date_gmt":"2011-11-09T20:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/?p=2716"},"modified":"2011-11-09T20:03:05","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T20:03:05","slug":"duany-is-in-the-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/2011\/11\/duany-is-in-the-details\/","title":{"rendered":"Duany is in the Details"},"content":{"rendered":"

Part of what makes Seaside and its ilk so successful is their attention to detail. And by detail I don’t mean what one observant designer called “frosting”– banners, lamposts, and fountains.<\/p>\n

A more structural approach to designing a space or place begins with elements that are obvious in plan view–terminated views, street grids, and a central square. That initial street grid is punctuated by a square, then further embroidered with paths and smaller spaces.<\/p>\n

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looks good even from up here<\/p><\/div>\n

But even those public spaces and paths are treated with varying levels of complexity. The formal public lawn is neatly mown and edged, but other spaces are more casual.<\/p>\n

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a formal space, shoes shined and shirt tucked in<\/p><\/div>\n

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causal and as comfortable as your favorite jeans<\/p><\/div>\n

The path in front of your house is paved and raked, the one behind a barefoot track.<\/p>\n

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as some say, Queen Anne in the front...<\/p><\/div>\n

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...and Mary Anne in the back<\/p><\/div>\n

And this doesn’t take a lot of money or design with a capital D. It takes attention to detail and even function.<\/p>\n

But what I really like is the sense of depth and definition in these places; they don’t peter out into parking lots.<\/p>\n

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some complexity on the way to your latte<\/p><\/div>\n

Much of this seems serendipitous, but the cynic in me knows that every brick is carefully considered. The details almost transcend architecture to become elements in a script. Visitors and residents seem to have entered into a\u00a0 Disney-like contract–because the place looks a certain way, we’ll behave a certain way. The neatly arrayed food trucks selling retro-charming food\u00a0are lit by artfully hung bare bulbs and their soundtrack is surf music.<\/p>\n

Were the modernists right? Does a new architecture create a new man? Or in this case, does a nostalgic architecture create a comfort zone? After all, there is no MPDU housing here, this is PLU housing (People Like Us).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Part of what makes Seaside and its ilk so successful is their attention to detail. And by detail I don’t mean what one observant designer called “frosting”– banners, lamposts, and fountains.<\/p>\n

A more structural approach to designing a space or place begins with elements that are obvious in plan view–terminated views, street grids, and a central square. That initial street grid is punctuated by a square, then further embroidered with paths and smaller spaces.<\/p>\n

But even those public spaces and paths are treated with varying levels of complexity. The formal public lawn is neatly mown and edged, but other spaces are more casual.<\/p>\n

The path in front of your house is paved and raked, the one behind a barefoot … 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":[4,3,299,5,20],"tags":[324,325,326,313,323,322],"class_list":["post-2716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-design","category-places","category-planning","category-public-spaces","tag-architectural-details","tag-landmarks","tag-mpdu","tag-seaside","tag-town-planning","tag-urban-deisgn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2716","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=2716"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2738,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2716\/revisions\/2738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}