Miami
21, represents the
"Miami of the 21st Century."
Miami 21's vision takes into account all of the integral factors
that will make each area within the City a unique, vibrant place
to live, learn, work and play. It provides a clear vision for
the City that will be supported by specific guidelines and regulations
so that future generations will reap the benefits of well-balanced
neighborhoods and a rich quality of life.
Part of the Miami 21 vision is a form-based zoning code, where
the emphasis of the code is placed on the "form" (shape/configuration)
of a structure - and the relationship of buildings to each other,
to streets and to open spaces - rather than emphasis on its "use."
The form-based code includes "smart-growth" principles,
which focus on a greater mix of housing, commercial and retail
uses, transit and pedestrian oriented communities, and preserves
open space.
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About Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company
Celebrating its 25th year in 2005, Duany Plater-Zyberk
& Company (DPZ) is a major leader in the practice and direction
of urban planning, having designed over 300 new and existing communities
in the United States and overseas.
DPZ’s projects have received numerous awards,
including two National AIA Awards, the Vincent Scully Prize, the
Thomas Jefferson Medal and two Governor’s Urban Design Awards
for Excellence. The firm’s early project of Seaside, Florida,
was the first authentic new town to be built successfully in the
United States in over fifty years. In 1989, Time Magazine selected
Seaside as one of the 10 "Best of the Decade" achievements
in the field of design. The firm has been featured in other national
media such as NBC News and ABC News, as well as Newsweek, the
New York Times, the Washington Post, and the New Yorker.
The firm is led by its Principals, Andres Duany
and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, who are co-founders of the Congress
for the New Urbanism (CNU), recognized by the New York Times as
"the most important collective architectural movement in
the United States in the past fifty years." The movement,
currently over 3,000 strong, marked a turning point from the segregated
planning and architecture of post-war America; instead, they advocated
and promoted the universal and time-tested principles of traditional
planning and design that created the best-loved and most-enduring
places throughout the world.
The firm’s method of integrating master plans
with project-specific design codes and regulations is currently
being applied to sites ranging from 10 to 10,000 acres throughout
the United States. Abroad, DPZ projects are underway in Scotland,
Spain, Canada, Germany, Belgium, Australia, the Philippines, Mexico,
India and Turkey. Urban redevelopment plans for existing communities
include: Baton Rouge, Louisiana; West Palm Beach, Naples, Sarasota,
and Fort Myers, Florida; and Providence, Rhode Island. In addition,
the firm is rewriting the entire City of Miami zoning code in
the groundbreaking Miami 21 project.
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