Duany Plater-Zyberk and Company
Duany Plater-Zyberk and Company go to top
Since its founding in 1980, Duany Plater-Zyberk and Company (DPZ) has designed over 250 new towns, community revitalization and regional plans. The firm's designs have had a major influence on the practice and direction of town and urban planning in the United States.
The firm's earliest project of the town of Seaside in the Florida panhandle was the first authentic new town to be built successfully in the United States within the past 50 years. Seaside garnered numerous awards and international recognition for its incorporation of environmental conservation, sense of place and community, and a new approach to development economies. A significant aspect of DPZ's work is its innovative use of planning regulations, which accompany each design project.
Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, co-founders of DPZ, have dedicated their careers to proposing beautiful and practical alternatives to suburban sprawl and urban deterioration. They have produced regional conservation and development plans for counties in Florida and New York, as well as new traditional neighborhood and rebuilding plans throughout the country and abroad. The firm currently designs 20 projects a year.
Randall Arendt, M.R.T.P.I. go to top
Randall Arendt is a land-use planner, site designer, author, lecturer, and an advocate of "conservation planning." He is Senior Conservation Advisor at the Natural Lands Trust and is the former Director of Planning and Research for Rural Massachusetts at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where he also served as an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning. He is an elected Fellow of the Royal Town Planning Institute in London, England.
Alta Planning and Design go to top
Alta is one of North America's leading firms specializing in progressive transportation planning, design, and implementation. They focus on multi-modal solutions, particularly bicycle, pedestrian and trail corridors and systems.