The Seaside Institute is a non-profit organization promoting the building of community in cities and towns through design, education and the arts.

The Institute promotes a full and informed civic life with a variety of educational and cultural programs. These programs, which focus on community enhancement, the built and natural environment, urban planning and architecture, appeal to an international constituency. Institute members and programs contribute significantly to the dissemination of New Urbanism/Smart Growth ideals and information.

The Institute's Goals

Using Seaside as a model, The Institute helps develop solutions that will apply to communities of every type, size and location. The Institute exists to:

• Serve as a forum for the exchange of innovative ideas, where solutions may be developed for problems facing communities everywhere.


• Affect the design and redesign of communities in ways that shape and improve the human condition.


• Alter land development patterns to achieve sustainable development . . . that is, compatibility between urbanization and the preservation of nature.


• Explore the realization that through the integration of educational and cultural programs, more complete communities may be developed.


• Create links throughout the world with other people and organizations sharing similar goals.