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  1. A conversation about urban planning with Andres Duany & Elisabeth Plater-Zybek
    A conversation about urban planning with Andres Duany...

    with Elisabeth Plater-Zyberk and Andres Duany on Dec 5, 1997

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Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk

Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk is an American architect and urban planner. In 1977, she was co-founder of the Miami firm Arquitectonica, with her husband Andrés Duany, Bernardo Fort-Brescia, Laurinda Hope Spear, and Hervin Romney. Duany and Plater-Zyberk founded Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company (DPZ) in 1980, with its headquarters in Miami. DPZ became a leader in the national movement called the New Urbanism and distinguished itself by designing traditional towns and retrofitting livable downtowns into existing suburbs.

Plater-Zyberk began teaching at the University of Miami School of Architecture in 1979 and created a graduate program in Suburb and Town Design in 1988. She has been dean of the university’s School of Architecture since 1995. Plater-Zyberk is a founder and board member of the Congress for the New Urbanism, established in 1993. She has been a visiting professor at many major North American schools of architecture and has been awarded several honorary doctorates and awards. Her recent publications include “The New Civic Art” and “Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream.”

Source-Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Plater-Zyberk