Andrés Duany is a founding principal at Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company (DPZ). DPZ is widely recognized as a leader of the New Urbanism, an international movement that seeks to end suburban sprawl and urban disinvestment. In the years since the firm first received recognition for the design of Seaside, Florida, in 1980, DPZ has completed designs for close to 300 new towns, regional plans, and community revitalization projects. This work has exerted a significant influence on the practice and direction of urban planning and development in the United States and abroad.

Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk Known as one of the most important thinkers of smart growth, sustainable development and community planning in the world, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk brings a unique and highly sought expertise that lends itself to planning at every scale, from the village, to the campus, to the town and the city. Plater-Zyberk is a founding principal of Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company and dean of the University of Miami School of Architecture, recognized worldwide for its Suburb and Town Design Program that she created in1988. She is a founder and board emerita board member of the Congress for the New Urbanism, established in 1993; the same year that the New York Times characterized the New Urbanism as “the most important phenomenon to emerge in American architecture in the post-Cold War era.”