The Little Beach Town that Changed the World

"Nearly 45 years ago, a visionary couple launched a community along a stretch of Florida coast where they’d inherited some land. That development—Seaside—spawned sister developments at Rosemary and Alys beaches and launched New Urbanism as a design movement that has swept  the coast from the Lowcountry to the Olympic Peninsula. As Alys Beach celebrates its 20th anniversary and Seaside looks to its 45th in 2026, Tracey Minkin checks in with the movement’s founders and inheritors as those dreams turn the corner to the future."

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