Views of Seaside: Commentaries and Observations on a City of Ideas

New York: Rizzoli, 2008. Small folio in color illsu jacket; 202 pages: illustrations (chiefly color); 28 cm New in gently spine-sunned fine thus jacket. in near fine dust-jacket. Hardcover.

"This collection of 30 illustrated essays celebrates 25 years of Seaside, Florida, the first and most renowned of New Urbanist new towns." Contents: A city of ideas / Ray Gindroz -- Views on town building. Marinated in modernism / Robert Davis; Reflections on seaside / Andrés Duany; Daryl: the essential eye / Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk; Remembering early seaside / Léon Krier -- Views on urbanism and sustainability. Episodes on the way to the obelisk / Donlyn Lyndon; What were they thinking? / Stefanos Polyzoides; Lessons of Seaside / Witold Rybczynski; Thoughts on seaside / His Royal Highness, the Prince of Wales; The Seaside studio / Peter J. Hetzel and Dhiru A. Thadani; An environmental model / Andrés Duany; Seaside and sustainability / Douglas Farr; The oldest young village I know / Jaquelin T. Robertson; The tragedy of Seaside legacy / Braulio Casas; Balancing the natural and human condition / James F. Murley; Seaside beyond twenty-five / Daniel Parolek -- Views on architecture. Early Seaside / Walter Chatham; The town and the beach / William L. Rawn; The regeneration of capability / Robert Orr; A question of style / Alexander Gorlin; Greetings from Uncle Seaside / Robert A.M. Stern; Krier House / Laurie and Joseph Braga; The first time / Daniel F. Solomon; A gift to the profession of architecture / Eric Osth -- Views on Seaside. Photographs / Steven Brooke -- Views on economics and development. Lessons of old / Joseph P. Riley, Jr.; Small town, big idea / Peter S. Rummell; Seaside's influence on new housing / Laurie Volk and Todd Zimmerman; Lessons at twenty-five / Christopher B. Leinberger -- Views on social and lifestyle influences. Seaside and me / James Howard Kunstler; Just Seaside / Emily Talen; Seaside grows up / John Norquist; Cinderella circle / Leah Stroble; Seaside observations / Roberto Rampinelli; Remembrances of summers past / Richard Sexton -- Afterword / Ray Gindroz.