answers and solutions. Eventually, municipalities and
planners throughout the world would embrace this
flexible philosophy, known sometimes also as the
New Traditionalism. It was subsequent to this period,
coincidentally or not, that much of the New York City
park system was restored and revitalized along these
lines by former Parks Commissioner Henry J. Stern; I
recently thanked him again for his superb work.
F
or my tiny bit, around 1983, I commissioned
America's most important proponent of the philosophy,
Andres Duany, to collaborate with me in designing two
forty-five foot wide classic Georgian townhouses at
Charleston Place, Boca Raton, Florida. Abutting each
other, they would be interestingly inconsistent with the
more uniformly Duany-designed development, thereby
they stand to this day as catalysts for a principle New
Urbanist tenet: however harmonious the plan of the
community, there must be diversity and individuality in
architecture. Charleston Place served for Duany and his
wife and partner, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk (DPZ), as the
design precursor to their brilliant New Urbanist shrine—
much admired by the Prince—Seaside, Florida.
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