Seaside (Florida)

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Seaside is a master-planned community , a small seaside town in Walton County in the Florida Panhandle , a strip of land in the northwest of the US -amerikanischen State of Florida in the Gulf of Mexico . The community-free area was developed by Robert Davis in 1979 and was the location of the 1998 film The Truman Show .

Architects belonging to the urban planning movement New Urbanism worked on the design of the location, which was designed on the drawing board .

geography

Seaside is about 110 km east of Pensacola on the Gulf of Mexico . The US Highway 98 leads about 2 km north of the town over.

history

Seaside's beginnings can be traced back to 1946, when Robert Davis's grandfather bought 80 acres of land on the Florida Panhandle coast to settle with his family. When Davis inherited the property, he began building a seaside resort based on the traditional structure. Together with the architects Andrés Duany and Elisabeth Plater-Zyberk , he visited many small towns in the south to get ideas for his project and to build Seaside. The architecture of the houses that were eventually built ranged from Victorian to revolutionary , new and postmodern to deconstructive . Other architects who contributed to the townscape with their buildings were Léon Krier , Robert AM Stern , Steven Holl , Machado and Silvetti Associates , Deborah Berke , Walter Chatham, Daniel Solomon, Jeff Margaretten, Alex Gorlin, Aldo Rossi , Michael McDonough, Samuel Mockbee , David Mohney, Steve Badanes , Walker Candler and David Coleman .

Popular in Seaside are the 5,000-meter run and half marathon held annually in March . The number of participants is limited to 800 or 2200 people.

See also

A similar project in Florida is the planned city Celebration .

Web links

Commons : Seaside, Florida  - Collection of pictures, videos, and audio files

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  5. http://www.seasideschoolhalfmarathon.com Seaside Half Marathon

Coordinates: 30 ° 19 ′  N , 86 ° 8 ′  W