Links & Resources

Books about new urbanism

Communities and towns with garage apartments

• Avalon Park (Orlando, FL)
• Baldwin Park (Orlando, FL) - Baldwin park has several garage apartments. The site was originally a naval base.
• Celebration, FL - Simply the best effort to date of a traditional neighborhood development. Celebration has a high concentration of quality garage apartments.
• Celebration Life - a blog about life in Celebration, Florida, by a Celebration resident
• I'On (Mt. Pleasant, SC) - Located slightly north of Charleston, SC
• Prospect New Town (Prospect, CO) - Retro community with an impressive number of garage apartments.

Garage Apartment Plans & Designs

• Marine Garage with Apartment plan from Simply Elegant Home Designs
• Residential Design Services - Great customer service and a real simple interface for locating garage apartment plans.
• COOL House Plans Company - One of the oldest collections around.

Organizations promoting garage apartments

• Council of New Urbanism - Florida - An excellent resource for learning about TND's around Florida.
• New Urban News - A very technical new urban newsletter.
• Next Generation - Preparing the next generation of New Urbanists
• The Town Paper - A great new urbanism read based in the Kentlands, MD.

Real Estate Links

• Fine Homes Orlando - a Celebration-based real estate brokerage, specializing in South Orlando (Celebration, Champions Gate, Davenport, Kissimmee, etc.)
• Florida Over 55 - information on retiring to sunny Florida