Visions of Seaside

2013-09-03 Architecture

Author : Dhiru A. Thadani
Release : 2013-09-03
Genre : Architecture
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Book Rating : 537/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Visions of Seaside written by Dhiru A. Thadani. This book was released on 2013-09-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Time magazine noted that Seaside "could be the most astonishing design achievement of its era…." Visions of Seaside is the most comprehensive book on the history and development of the nation’s first and most influential New Urbanist town. The book chronicles the thirty-year history of the evolution and development of Seaside, Florida, its global influence on town planning, and the resurgence of place-making in the built environment. Through a rich repository of historical materials and writings, the book chronicles numerous architectural and planning schemes, and outlines a blueprint for moving forward over the next twenty-five to fifty years. Among the many contributors are Deborah Berke, Andrés Duany, Steven Holl, Léon Krier, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, Aldo Rossi, and Robert A. M. Stern.

Reflections on Seaside

2021-04-27 Architecture

Author : Dhiru Thadani
Release : 2021-04-27
Genre : Architecture
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Book Rating : 162/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Reflections on Seaside written by Dhiru Thadani. This book was released on 2021-04-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sequel to the critically acclaimed Visions of Seaside (2013), Reflections on Seaside celebrates the fortieth anniversary of the town of Seaside, returning to the place that has inspired countless designers, architects, urban planners, and everyday citizens in the search for the ideal home. Reflections on Seaside is the most comprehensive book on the history and development of the nation's first and most influential New Urbanist town. The book chronicles the forty-year history of the evolution and development of the town of Seaside, Florida, which has had a significant global influence on town planning around the world. The book features, among other elements, new projects built in and around the town since the last publication in 2013, and outlines a blueprint for moving forward over the next twenty-five to fifty years. Many new essays by a wide array of prominent architects and designers, including Robert A. M. Stern, Andrés Duany, Deborah Berke, Steven Holl, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, Ray Gindroz, and Scott Merrill, examine urbanism today as well as sustainability and the environment. Dhiru A. Thadani, AIA, is an architect, author, and urbanist who has worked on projects across the globe and now serves as urban design consultant to several U.S. and international cities. Joseph P. Riley Jr. is an American politician who served for ten terms as mayor of Charleston, South Carolina (1975-2016). Léon Krier is an architect, architectural theorist, urban planner, and prominent advocate of New Urbanism and New Traditional architecture. He is also adviser to Charles, Prince of Wales.

Views of Seaside

2008-11-04 Architecture

Author : Seaside Institute
Release : 2008-11-04
Genre : Architecture
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Download or read book Views of Seaside written by Seaside Institute. This book was released on 2008-11-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Seaside, Florida, is a town designed as an "ideal" community, where houses have front porches and verandaas, picket fences and sleeping porches; here, streets are made of pebbles and seashells. The Seaside Institute has authored Views of Seaside in collaboration with more than 30 leading architects, designers, theorists and planners, each of whom has contributed an essay here that personally explores the town's impact."--BOOK JACKET.

Dreams in the New Century

2022-05-17 History

Author : Gary R. Mormino
Release : 2022-05-17
Genre : History
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Download or read book Dreams in the New Century written by Gary R. Mormino. This book was released on 2022-05-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Florida Book Awards, Gold Medal for Florida Nonfiction Florida Historical Society Charlton Tebeau Book Award A leading Florida historian explores one of the state’s most consequential eras It was a time of stunning episodes of boom and bust, an era of extremes, a decade of historic changes that point to Florida’s future. In this book, eminent historian Gary Mormino illuminates early twenty-first-century Florida and its connections to some of the most significant events in contemporary American history. Following Mormino’s milestone work Land of Sunshine, State of Dreams, which details the dynamic history of Florida from 1950 to 2000, Dreams in the New Century explores the state’s tumultuous next chapter, a period that included the Bush v. Gore election, 9/11, the housing bubble and Great Recession, and the election of Barack Obama. During these years the Elián González story engrossed the country, Tim Tebow rose to football fame, and Donald Trump became a Florida celebrity. From hurricanes to Ponzi schemes, red tides, climate change, the “Stand-Your-Ground” gun law, demographic diversity, and more, Florida offered nonstop news fodder that reflected its extraordinary internal trends and its importance in the nation. As Mormino shows, Florida is a place of deep conflicts—North and South, liberal and conservative, newcomer and local, growth and conservation—with histories that can be traced back centuries. In 2000‒2010, Mormino argues, these tensions collided to produce a “Big Bang” that will continue to resonate in years to come. Mormino takes stock of this crucible of change and explains the social, cultural, and political intricacies of a state the world struggles to understand. Dreams in the New Century unravels Florida’s complicated recent history in a gripping, informative, and fascinating narrative.

Visions of City and Sea

1975

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Release : 1975
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