Central Florida Urbanism Tour

Explore five communities near our Summit host city of Clermont, Florida, and see how the principles of walkable urbanism have taken shape across different eras, settings, and development models.

November 5 · 8:00 AM–6:00 PM
Departing from Clermont
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What To Expect

This full-day guided tour brings together historic precedents and contemporary New Urbanist communities. At each stop, we’ll examine the streets, blocks, public spaces, architecture, and development strategies that contribute to enduring places.

From an 1880s resort town to large-scale infill and greenfield traditional neighborhood developments, the tour offers a firsthand look at the evolution of urbanism in Central Florida.

Historic precedents and contemporary applications
Main streets and mixed-use centers
Block structure and street connectivity

Tour Stops

01 · Celebration

A landmark New Urbanist town, thirty years later

Planned by Cooper Robertson with Robert A.M. Stern and featuring work by many notable architects, Celebration offers an opportunity to examine how a highly coordinated pattern-book community has matured over three decades.

We’ll study: Market Street, the town center, civic architecture, and the lakefront promenade.

02 · Baldwin Park

Large-scale infill on a former military base

Built on the former Orlando Naval Training Center, Baldwin Park is a rare example of a full-scale infill traditional neighborhood development organized around a main street, connected blocks, and publicly accessible lakes.

We’ll study: New Broad Street, alley-loaded blocks, neighborhood connectivity, and the public lakefront.

Civic architecture and public space
Waterfronts, trails, and landscape
Greenfield development and large-scale infill
How communities mature and adapt over time

03 · Winter Park

The historic precedent

Founded as a resort community in the 1880s, Winter Park provides the day’s historic benchmark: a main street and public realm that continue to function commercially and socially more than a century later.

We’ll study: Park Avenue, Central Park, storefront rhythm, block scale, and pedestrian connectivity.

04 · Rollins College

A campus shaped as a civic place

Florida’s oldest college pairs a Mediterranean Revival architectural identity with a compact, walkable campus overlooking Lake Virginia.

We’ll study: Knowles Memorial Chapel, the Annie Russell Theatre, campus quadrangles, and the relationship between architecture and civic space.

05 · Oakland Park

A contemporary lakeside TND

Located along Lake Apopka and the West Orange Trail, Oakland Park demonstrates a newer generation of traditional neighborhood development shaped by connected streets, public greens, trail access, and protected shoreline.

We’ll study: The street grid, neighborhood greens, trail connections, and the Lake Apopka edge.