Monday, August 23, 2010

NEW URBANISM ROAD TRIP -- PART 4


NEW URBANISM ROAD TRIP -- PART 4

On day two, we drive into Palm Beach County, stopping at Abacoa -- a billion dollar development in the Town of Jupiter.

Abacoa is a 2,000-plus-acre, master-planned, mixed-use community designed as a Traditional Neighborhood Development.

Abacoa is designed to be walkable and diverse, with affordable to high-end housing.

Its center has a minor league baseball stadium and a main street-style town center with shops and residences.

The DPZ firm worked on Abacoa with the legendary Calthorpe Associates and Moule and Polyzoides Architects.

The goal was to create a compact development out of raw land, rather than filling it with sprawling subdivisions that required automobile use to fulfill basic daily needs.

Tomorrow: Delray Beach FLA

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