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Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company
offers a full range of planning and architectural services. While the focus of the firm is on
designing "places," DPZ also maintains an active architectural
practice, writes land use codes, and educates the public about the
principles of the New Urbanism.
Over the past two decades, DPZ has completed more neighborhood-based urban
designs than any other firm in the country-- over 250 in all. The recipient of numerous awards,
including two National AIA Awards and two Governor’s Urban Design
Awards for Excellence, DPZ is widely recognized as the nation’s
leading proponent of New Urban design. Co-founders of the Congress for the New
Urbanism, the firm’s principals have remained in the forefront of
this movement dedicated to the promotion of healthy alternatives to
suburban sprawl.
DPZ uses a comprehensive charrette process to create plans ranging in size
from the neighborhood to the region. The charrette brings together all
interested and affected parties to collaborate with the designers on a
vision for the community. This process, which produces full documentation
in a single week, has proved to be the most efficient and cost-effective
means of arriving at consensus for a plan. As a result of the charrette, projects
tend to move more quickly though the approval process.
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