Congress for the New Urbanism’s Executive Director, Rick Cole, Visits SEASIDE®

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05/11/22

Congress for the New Urbanism’s Executive Director, Rick Cole, Visits SEASIDE®

As a Southern beach town, Seaside is neither utopia nor stage set. Its great achievement is in demonstrating an alternative to two generations of American sprawl.

What more can anybody say about Seaside?

Last year, Rizzoli published Dhiru Thadani’s magisterial Reflections on Seaside with essays by 90 contributors, including the Prince of Wales. It runs 846 pages and weighs in at nearly 12 pounds. It surely stands as the definitive account of a place that—whether we like it or not—serves as the ultimate poster child of New Urbanism.

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