Seaside (Florida)

Seaside is a master Planned community a small seaside resort in Walton County in the Florida Panhandle, a strip of land in the Northwest of the U.S. state of Florida on the Gulf of Mexico. The unincorporated area was opened in 1979 by Robert Davis and was the location in 1998 turned film The Truman Show.

At the design of the designed on the drawing board working place architects belonging to the town planning movement New Urbanism.

Geography

Seaside is located about 110 kilometers east of Pensacola on the Gulf of Mexico. U.S. Highway 98 runs around 2 km north past the place.

History

The beginnings of Seaside can be traced back to 1946 when the grandfather of Robert Davis on the coast of the Florida Panhandle 80 acres of land acquired in order to settle there with his family. When Davis had inherited the land, he began to build a seaside resort after long-standing structure. Together with the architects Andrés Duany and Elizabeth Plater - Zyberk he visited many small towns of the South in order to solicit ideas for his projects and to build Seaside. The architecture of the houses, which were eventually built, ranging from Victorian through revolutionary, new, post- modern to deconstructive. Other architects who contributed with their buildings the local scene, were Léon Krier, Robert AM Stern, Steven Holl, Machado and Silvetti Associates, Deborah Berke, Walter Chatham, Daniel Solomon, Jeff Marga Rescue, Alex Gorlin, Aldo Rossi, Michael McDonough, Samuel Mockbee, David Mohney, Steve Badanes, Walker Candler and David Coleman.

Popularized in Seaside is the discharged annually in March 5000 -meter run and the half marathon. The number of participants is limited to 800 or 2,200 people.