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| founder = [[Andrés Duany]] and [[Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk]]
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| key_people = Andrés Duany
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'''DPZ CoDesign''' ('''DPZ''') (formerly '''Duany Plater-Zyberk & Co.''' and '''DPZ Partners''') is an architecture and town planning firm based in [[Miami, Florida]].

It was founded in 1980 by a husband-and-wife team, [[Andrés Duany]] and [[Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk]]. The firm advocates for [[New Urbanism|New Urbanist]] town planning in the United States of America and other countries.

Besides Duany and Plater-Zyberk, DPZ's partners were Galina Tachieva, Marina Khoury, Senen M. A. Antonio and Matthew J. Lambert.

The firm's main areas of practice include regional and downtown plans, new towns, urban infill, villages and resort villages, and [[transit-oriented development]].

DPZ also works on suburban retrofits, campuses, housing, and civic buildings. The firm is headquartered in Miami, Florida and has offices in [[Gaithersburg, Maryland]], and [[Portland, Oregon]].

==Awards==
DPZ has received numerous awards for its work. These include two National AIA Awards, the Thomas Jefferson Award, the [[Vincent Scully Prize]], and two Governor's Urban Design Awards for Excellence.  The firm's [[Seaside, Florida]] project was the first authentic new town to be built successfully in the United States in over fifty years. In 1989, ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]],'' a news magazine, selected Seaside as one of the 10 "Best of the Decade" achievements in the field of design.

==Representative projects==
Planned communities designed by DPZ include:
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File:Seaside,_Florida.jpg|[[Seaside, Florida]]
File:Kentlands Cropped.jpg|[[Kentlands, Gaithersburg, Maryland|Kentlands, Maryland]]
File:Eastern Green, Rosemary Beach, Florida Cropped.jpg|[[Rosemary Beach, Florida]]
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*[[Ocean View (Norfolk)|East Beach, Norfolk, Virginia]]
*Village of Providence, [[Huntsville, Alabama]]<ref>[http://www.villageofprovidence.com Village of Providence]</ref>
*[[Alys Beach, Florida]]
*[[Prospect New Town|Prospect New Town, Longmont, Colorado]]

==Disaster recovery planning==
DPZ took a leading role in the rebuilding of the Gulf Coast after hurricanes [[Hurricane Katrina|Katrina]] and [[Hurricane Rita|Rita]]. Working with the Mississippi Governor's Commission on Recovery, Rebuilding and Renewal, and the [[Louisiana Recovery Authority]], DPZ's designers have generated plans for rebuilding at the regional, local and neighborhood level. They also developed guidelines for individual homeowners looking to rebuild. Notably, DPZ organized and led the [[Mississippi Renewal Forum]], which generated plans for eleven municipalities along the Mississippi Coast; prepared a series of typological plans for recovery and redevelopment of the Southern Louisiana coast under the [[Louisiana Speaks]] effort; and participated in the Unified New Orleans Plan as the neighborhood planner for the French Quarter, the Central Business District and [[Gentilly, New Orleans|Gentilly]]. Following the earthquake that struck Haiti in 2010, DPZ, working under the banner of [[The Prince's Foundation for the Built Environment]] (TPFBE), prepared a recovery plan for Port-au-Prince.

==Publications==
Andrés Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk's book ''Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream'', written with [[Jeff Speck]] and published in 2000, was reported in the national media as "an essential text for our time", and "a major literary event". Their book ''New Civic Art: Elements of Town Planning'', written with Robert Alminana, was published to wide acclaim.  More recent publications by or about DPZ include Duany and Speck's ''The Smart Growth Manual''; Thomas E. Low's ''Light Imprint Handbook: Integrating Sustainability and Community Design''; Galina Tachieva's ''Sprawl Repair Manual''; and Duany's ''Garden Cities: Theory & Practice of Agrarian Urbanism''.

==Further reading==
* Andrés Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, Jeff Speck. ''Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream'', North Point Press, 2001 {{ISBN|0-86547-606-3}} or {{ISBN|978-0-86547-606-6}}
* Andrés Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, Robert Alminana. ''New Civic Art: Elements of Town Planning'', Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., 2003. {{ISBN|0-8478-2186-2}}
* Joanna Lombard. ''The Architecture of Duany Plater-Zyberk and Company''. New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 2005  {{ISBN|0-8478-2600-7}}
* Andrés Duany and Jeff Speck with Mike Lydon. ''The Smart Growth Manual'', McGraw-Hill Professional, 2009. {{ISBN|0-07-137675-5}} or {{ISBN|978-0-07-137675-4}}
* Thomas E. Low. ''Light Imprint Handbook: Integrating Sustainability and Community Design'', Civic by Design, 2010. {{ISBN|1-931871-09-4}} or {{ISBN|978-1-931871-09-9}}
* Galina Tachieva. ''Sprawl Repair Manual'', Island Press, 2010. {{ISBN|1-59726-732-5}} or {{ISBN|978-1-59726-732-8}}
* Andrés Duany, Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company. ''Garden Cities: Theory & Practice of Agrarian Urbanism'', The Prince's Foundation for the Built Environment, 2011. {{ISBN|1-906384-04-5}} or {{ISBN|978-1-906384-04-3}}

==References==
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==External links==
*{{Official website|http://www.dpz.com/}}
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