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Duany Plater-Zyberk & Co Town Planner- Charrette Project Coordinator Privately-held | | | | | CONTACT INFO | | | | Join UPworld to connect to Lourdes Castaner-Ruano | | | | WORK EXPERIENCE | | | | Company |  | | Title: | Town Planner- Charrette Project Coordinator | | Company Name: | Duany Plater-Zyberk & Co | | Start Date: | May 2006 | | End Date: | Currently working | | Company Size: | 21-50 | | Company Type: | Privately-held | | | The firm is led by its Principals, Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, who are co-founders of the Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU), recognized by the New York Times as "the most important collective architectural movement in the United States in the past fifty years." The movement, currently over 3,000 strong, marked a turning point from the segregated planning and architecture of post-war America; instead, they advocated and promoted the universal and time-tested principles of traditional planning and design that created the best-loved and most-enduring places throughout the world.
The firm’s method of integrating master plans with project-specific design codes and regulations is currently being applied to sites ranging from 10 to 10,000 acres throughout the United States. Abroad, DPZ projects are underway in Scotland, Spain, Canada, Germany, Belgium, Australia, the Philippines, Mexico, India and Turkey. Urban redevelopment plans for existing communities include: Baton Rouge, Louisiana; West Palm Beach, Naples, Sarasota, and Fort Myers, Florida; and Providence, Rhode Island. In addition, the firm is rewriting the entire City of Miami zoning code in the groundbreaking Miami 21 project.
A significant aspect of DPZ’s work is its innovative planning regulations which accompany each design. Tailored to the individual project, the codes address the manner in which buildings are formed and located to ensure that they create useful and distinctive public spaces. Local architectural traditions and building techniques are also codified within the regulations. In the last five years, DPZ has also been continually developing a new model, form-based zoning code called the SmartCode, which has been adopted by municipalities across the country.
DPZ has also taken a leading role in the rebuilding of the Gulf Coast after hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Working with both with the Mississippi Governor’s Commission on Recovery, Rebuilding and Renewal, and the Louisiana Recovery Authority, DPZ’s designers generated plans for rebuilding at the regional, local and neighborhood scales, as well as guidelines for individual homeowners looking to rebuild. Notably, DPZ organized and led the Mississippi Renewal Forum, which generated plans for all eleven municipalites along the Mississippi Coast, conducted the Louisiana Speaks charrette series and participated in the Unified New Orleans Plan as neighborhood planners.
Duany and Plater-Zyberk’s recent book, Suburban Nation, written with Jeff Speck, was hailed as "an essential text for our time," and "a major literary event," in the national media. In 2004, Builder Magazine recognized Duany as among the 50 most influential people in home building, the ranks of which included economists, bankers and developers, apart from architects, planners and builders. Duany was ranked after Alan Greenspan, Franklin Rainee, George W. Bush and Jerry Howard, earning Duany the distinction of being the top ranking individual from the private sector. Duany sits on the board of the National Town Builders Association, and Plater-Zyberk shepherds the Knight Program in Community Building, a program that brings an interdisciplinary approach to the revitalization of inner cities. These and other efforts have earned Duany, Plater-Zyberk, and the firm at large international recognition and dozens of local and national awards in recognition of their contributions to the American built environment. | | | | | | Experience Level | | | | Expertise: Successfully managed public process in town planning and urban design projects, with a strong emphasis on marketing, public relations, entitlement, governmental affairs and community/neighborhood planning, development and retro-fit projects. She has a diverse experience includes nineteen years in private banking and real estate finance, five years as marketing director and principal for an advertising firm mostly involved with development and real estate projects, and five years in community planning and government relations for the University of Miami. For the past two years, she has worked as a project coordinator for Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company, organizing more than 30 large-scale community-planning charrettes across the U.S., Guatemala, the Caribbean and Europe; including the management and tracking of projects through the implementation phases. | | | | Skills: Town Planning & Community Relations | | | | EDUCATION | | | | School: | University Of Miami | | Degree: | Art & Architecture | | Study Field: | Town Planning & New Urbanism | | | | GROUPS AND ASSOCIATIONS | | | | Group: | Congress of New Urbanism | | Start Date: | May 2001 | | Description: | The Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU) is the leading organization promoting walkable, neighborhood-based development as an alternative to sprawl. CNU takes a proactive, multi-disciplinary approach to restoring our communities. Members are the life of the organization – they are the planners, developers, architects, engineers, public officials, investors, and community activists who create and influence our built environment, transforming growth patterns from the inside out. Whether it's bringing restorative plans to hurricane-battered communities in the Gulf Coast, turning dying malls into vibrant mixed-use neighborhoods, or reconnecting isolated public housing projects to the surrounding fabric, new urbanists are providing leadership in community building.
Our relationship with our members allows us to do more than just talk about the problems of the built environment. Together, we are creating tools that make it easier to put New Urbanism into practice around the world. | | | | Group: | Alliance for a New Humanity | | Start Date: | Jan 2007 | | Description: | Our mission is to connect people, who, through personal and social transformation, aim to build a just, peaceful, and sustainable world, reflecting the unity of all humanity | | | | Group: | Rotary International | | Start Date: | Mar 2000 | | End Date: | Mar 2006 | | |
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