Views of Seaside: Commentaries and Observations on a City of Ideas

About this book

Seaside Florida is a town designed as an "ideal" community where houses have front porches and verandas picket fences sleeping porches where streets are carved and paved with brick and sidewalks are made of pebbles and seashells. This resort town on Floridas panhandle coast has had an extraordinary impact on the thinking of architects developers planners traffic engineers sociologists environmentalists and even political thinkers. As the first the most widely published and now at twenty-five by far the most esteemed and well-known example of the revival of traditional neighborhood design Seaside has become the icon of the New Urbanism movement and has been emulated extensively.