Talk:Seaside, Florida

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1 Seriously needs NPOV
2 Instances of bias
3 Map request
4 Kentlands Citizens Assembly website

[edit] Seriously needs NPOV

This article reads like a commercial for their philosophy of town design, or actually come to think of it, like a recruiting pamphlet for a cult. I'm marking it. Jaysbro 21:11, 18 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Instances of bias

"Encumbered" - implying that traditional urban planning is an unfair burden
"Traditional" in quotation marks, to imply disdain
"unique" and "fine-grained": undefined but positive-sounding words
Unsupported assertion that other town planners don't hire architects
Irrelevant material about DPZ's philosophical integrity
"success": what measure of success is being used, and who is doing the measuring? Just the increase in property values? 10% annual increase is not all that unusual.
"surprisingly affordable": what measure of affordable? Who's doing the measuring? Again the use of unnecessarily positive (but unnecessarily vague) words
"learned": this word implies that the philosophy being studied is true
"many thousands": unnecessarily vague, unncessarily positive connotation
"Seaside institute": Off-topic for the article; all that needs to be said is "The seaside institute is based in, and based on the philosophy of"
"Celebration": off-topic for the article about Seaside!
"housing projects": off-topic

And is DPZ a corporation, or two people referred to as a single unit?

- I agree with your complaints and encourage you to edit the article. Duany Plater-Zyberk is a privately-held company. They list 29 individuals on staff in ther main office in Miami, 5 in Washington DC and 2 in Charlotte, NC. [1] Dystopos 21:51, 18 October 2005 (UTC)

- I disagree that the mention of celebration is off-topic. Celebration is another city designed with similar goals and theory. I think a mention of celebration is fair. I feel the article is vague and could use more hard facts, but it is far from cult literature.