Seaside, FL Seminar, March
6-9, 2003
The seminar in Seaside, the
first New Urbanist town, was the last seminar for the 2002-2003 Knight Fellows
and the first gathering for the 2003-2004 Fellows. The joint seminar featured
guest lectures, walking tours, and presentations by the graduating class of
Fellows.
Guest lecturers included:
- Jeff Speck (co-author of Suburban Nation), on
“TND Principles and Techniques”
- Peter Katz (author of The New Urbanism: Toward and
Architecture of Community) on “Form-Based Codes”
- Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk (town planner for Seaside and
dean of the University of Miami School of Architecture), on “The Principles of
the Charter of the New Urbanism”
- Tim Hernandez, on “Home: New Urban Residential
Development in Cities and Suburbs”
- Vince Graham
- Nathan Norris
- Allison Ude.
Fellows took walking tours of
the towns of Seaside, Rosemary Beach, and WaterColor. The Seaside tour was led
by Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, who discussed the early history and development of
the town.
In addition to the final
presentations by graduating Fellows, the seminar included an in-depth discussion
of the 2002 Knight Program charrette, which focused on the Evergreen-Eastridge
section of San Jose.
After the seminar, Knight
Program Director Charles Bohl and five Knight Fellows went on to tour Haile
Village Center in Gainesville, Fl and Celebration in Orlando, FL. In Celebration
they met with the town architect and residents.
