About a month ago, I had the great fortune to travel to Seaside, FL. The ostensible reason for my visit was to attend the Seaside Award mini-conference, honoring the deep impact of Jeff Speck’s work on how planners and regular people understand walkability and street design. The event had a great lineup of speakers, including Jannette Sadik-Khan, Michael Bloomberg’s transportation commissioner who used tactical installations to first pedestrianize Times Square, Chuck Marohn of Strong Towns, former Mayor of Seattle Mike McGinn, and Harris County (TX) Commissioner, Rodney Ellis. It was an inspiring conversation about the opportunities to change how we think about transportation and streets in America.
I’m glad you got to experience it personally, especially with the designers; I hope to some day. I’m not clear on what weird trick you were referring to. Not sure it matters though as I’m more interested in a follow up to this article with “Learning from Seaside.” It’d be great to learn what Andres learned, the “failures”, and to see how other & newer New Urbanism developments have improved on what Seaside did. Of course being a resort vs full time living development, it’s lacking a lot of the resources to raise a family or have an income that can’t be done by computer; probably not easy to do a direct comparison as such. Another spin-off article would be how Seaside could be developed more incrementally, assuming it would be allowed; this is a topic that needs a LOT more fleshing out, especially for greenfield development.
I’m glad you got to experience it personally, especially with the designers; I hope to some day. I’m not clear on what weird trick you were referring to. Not sure it matters though as I’m more interested in a follow up to this article with “Learning from Seaside.” It’d be great to learn what Andres learned, the “failures”, and to see how other & newer New Urbanism developments have improved on what Seaside did. Of course being a resort vs full time living development, it’s lacking a lot of the resources to raise a family or have an income that can’t be done by computer; probably not easy to do a direct comparison as such. Another spin-off article would be how Seaside could be developed more incrementally, assuming it would be allowed; this is a topic that needs a LOT more fleshing out, especially for greenfield development.