DPZ CoDesign (DPZ) (formerly Duany Plater-Zyberk & Co. and DPZ Partners) is an architecture and town planning firm based in

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, founded in 1980 by the husband-and-wife team of

Andrés Duany Andrés Duany (born September 7, 1949) is an American architect, urban planner, and a founder of the Congress for the New Urbanism. Early life and education Duany was born in New York City but grew up in Cuba until 1960. He attended The Choat ...

and

Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk (born December 20, 1950) is a professor at the University of Miami's School of Architecture and an architect and urban planner in Miami, Florida. Plater-Zyberk is considered to be a representative of the New Urbanism scho ...

. The firm advocates for

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town planning in the United States and other countries. In addition to Duany and Plater-Zyberk, DPZ's partners include Galina Tachieva, Marina Khoury, Senen M. A. Antonio and Matthew J. Lambert. The firm's main area of practice include regional and downtown plans, new towns, urban infill, villages and resort villages, and

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. DPZ also works on suburban retrofits, campuses, housing, and civic buildings. The firm is headquartered in Miami, Florida, with offices in

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, and

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Awards

DPZ has received numerous awards for its work. These include two National AIA Awards, the Thomas Jefferson Award, the Vincent Scully Prize, and two Governor's Urban Design Awards for Excellence. The firm's Seaside, Florida project was the first authentic new town to be built successfully in the United States in over fifty years. In 1989, ''

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,'' a news magazine, selected Seaside as one of the 10 "Best of the Decade" achievements in the field of design.

Representative projects

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* Prospect New Town, Longmont, Colorado

Disaster recovery planning

DPZ took a leading role in the rebuilding of the Gulf Coast after hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Working with the Mississippi Governor's Commission on Recovery, Rebuilding and Renewal, and the

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, DPZ's designers have generated plans for rebuilding at the regional, local and neighborhood level. They also developed guidelines for individual homeowners looking to rebuild. Notably, DPZ organized and led the

Mississippi Renewal Forum The Mississippi Renewal Forum was a design charrette in which over 200 community leaders and design professionals worked together to plan the rebuilding of the Mississippi Coast post-Hurricane Katrina. In the course of a week in October 2005, the c ...

, which generated plans for eleven municipalities along the Mississippi Coast; prepared a series of typological plans for recovery and redevelopment of the Southern Louisiana coast under the

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effort; and participated in the Unified New Orleans Plan as the neighborhood planner for the French Quarter, the Central Business District and Gentilly. Following the earthquake that struck Haiti in 2010, DPZ, working under the banner of

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(TPFBE), prepared a recovery plan for Port-au-Prince.

Publications

Andrés Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk's book ''Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream'', written with

Jeff Speck Jeff Speck is an American city planner, writer, and lecturer who is the principal at the urban design and consultancy firm, Speck Dempsey. He has authored or co-authored several books on urban planning, including his 2012 book, ''Walkable City ...

and published in 2000, was reported in the national media as "an essential text for our time", and "a major literary event". Their book ''New Civic Art: Elements of Town Planning'', written with Robert Alminana, was published to wide acclaim. More recent publications by or about DPZ include Duany and Speck's ''The Smart Growth Manual''; Thomas E. Low's ''Light Imprint Handbook: Integrating Sustainability and Community Design''; Galina Tachieva's ''Sprawl Repair Manual''; and Duany's ''Garden Cities: Theory & Practice of Agrarian Urbanism''.

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