Seaside, Florida is an unincorporated master-planned community on the Florida panhandle roughly midway between Fort Walton Beach, Florida and Panama City, Florida. It was founded by builder/developer Robert Davis and the town plan was designed by architects/new urbanists Andrés Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk. Seaside is located in Walton County, Florida. A New town or planned community or planned city is a city, town, or community that was designed from scratch, and grew up more or less following the plan. ... The Florida Panhandle is the region of the state of Florida which includes the westernmost 16 counties in the state. ... Fort Walton Beach is a city in Okaloosa County, Florida, United States. ... Panama City is a city located in Bay County, Florida. ... Robert Davis can refer to: Robert Davis, inventor of the oxygen rebreather Robert A. Davis, Premier of Manitoba from 1874-1878 Robert Davis, UKIP Parliamentary Candidate in Wycombe Bob Davis, American novelist This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Architect at his drawing board, 1893 An architect/Building designer is a person involved in the planning, designing and oversight of a buildings construction, whose role is to guide decisions affecting those building aspects that are of aesthetic, cultural or social concern. ... New urbanism is an urban design movement that became very popular beginning in the 1980s and early 1990s. ... Andrés Duany (born September 7, 1949) is a American architect and urban planner. ... Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk was born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania on December 10, 1950. ... Walton County is a county located in the state of Florida. ...

The city is often cited as the first New Urban design. At the time of its construction, Walton County had no zoning ordinance, leaving Seaside's founders unencumbered by "traditional" zoning regulations. In the absence of these "traditional" regulations (minimum lot size requirements, separation of uses, and various other tools of government-based urban planning), Duany and Plater-Zyberk were able to lay out a unique, fine-grained development. Unlike other town planners, DZP hired architects such as Melanie Taylor and Robert Orr to do the actual building design. DZP has stuck to that regimen ever since and stakes its reputation strictly on town planning and coding. Seaside is primarily a vacation community, and its success has raised property values tenfold over twenty-five years. Nevertheless, it is possible to rent a cottage in Seaside for a week's vacation at a surprisingly affordable cost. As a result, many thousands of people have learned from Seaside and have helped their own communities become more pedestrian friendly, humane places. The Seaside Institute, which conducts seminars on urban design throughout the country has helped spread the ideas and refine the techniques of the New Urbanism. (Seaside's founder and master planners were among the founding board members of the Congress of The New Urbanism.) Other New Urbanist communities, like Celebration, Florida, learned from Seaside. Celebration's success makes it also less heterogeneous in income than New Urbanist principles promote, but these principles have also been successfully applied to projects which have converted derelict public housing projects to mixed-income neighborhoods under HUD's Hope VI program New urbanism is an urban design movement that became very popular beginning in the 1980s and early 1990s. ... Overview New Urbanism is an urban design movement that became very popular beginning in the 1980s and early 1990s. ... Celebration, Florida is a census-designated place and an unincorporated master-planned community near Walt Disney World which was developed by The Walt Disney Company. ... The word celebration has several meanings: See celebration for a joyous event or party. ...

The movie The Truman Show was filmed in Seaside. The Superintendent of Okaloosa Schools, Don Gaetz, was one of the original property owners of Seaside, Florida and his personal cottage was utilized as Truman's house in the film. The Truman Show (1998) is a movie directed by Peter Weir, written by Andrew Niccol, and starring Jim Carrey. ...

See also

• Prospect New Town

View south of Tenacity Drive in Prospect New Town showing a mix of aggregate housing and traditional detached homes. ...

External links

• Seaside website
• DPZ website
• Melanie Taylor website