Andres Duany
Andres Duany is an internationally recognized architect and urban designer dedicated to the design of compact, sustainable, walkable cities. He is the co-founder of DPZ CoDesign, a leader in the practice of planning and urban design for over 30 years. Duany is one of the founders of the New Urbanism, an international planning movement that advocates for the restoration of existing urban centers and towns, the reconfiguration of sprawling suburbs into communities of real neighborhoods and diverse districts, the conservation of natural environments, and the preservation of our built legacy. He is the co-author of several influential books including Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream (North Point Press, 2010), The New Civic Art: Elements of Town Planning (Rizzoli, 2003), The Smart Growth Manual (McGraw-Hill, 2010), Garden Cities: Theory & Practice of Agrarian Urbanism (Prince’s Foundation, 2012) and Transect urbanism: readings in human ecology (ORO Editions, 2020).
