Habersham Helps Inspire "Return of Front Porch"
Habersham is proud to, once-again, be distinguished as one of Duany Plater-Zyberk's most well executed traditional neighborhood designs. The recognition of the front porch's role in neighborhood socialization has always been at the heart of the Habersham town plan.


    /South Carolina News Articles/ - BEAUFORT, SC, August 13, 2008 - Popular online journal, American Profile.com, has cited the town of Habersham, South Carolina in a recent article about the revival of the front porch in American life. "The Front Porch" by Marti Attoun, highlights the history and origins behind the use of the front porch and its role in neighborhood development. Habersham garners mention as one of Duany Plater-Zyberk's exemplary town plans leading the way in creating a renewed emphasis on traditional front porches.

Traditional neighborhoods and houses with porches are being revived and built anew as people long for a sense of community. "People are feeling isolated. They drive miles and miles to get home from work, hit the garage-door button, fall out of their car and into the kitchen," says Tom Low, a Charlotte, N.C-based architect and community planner. "Aging baby boomers are interested in reconnecting. They're gravitating to the kind of communities that have neighborhoods and porches." Low works for Duany Plater-Zyberk and Co., which has revitalized and planned more than 500 communities, including Belmont Forest, Va.; Seaside, Fla.; and Habersham, a residential development in Beaufort, S.C. The communities feature houses with roomy porches in sidewalk-lined neighborhoods with retail shops, schools, churches, parks and post offices within an easy walk. Houses are close to the sidewalks to encourage neighborliness.

Habersham is ideally located on the coast just minutes from historic Beaufort, South Carolina and within an hour's drive of Hilton Head Island and Charleston, South Carolina as well as Savannah, Georgia. Recently awarded the "Best Neighborhood Design in America" by the National Association of Home Builders, Habersham continues the tradition of beautiful coastal towns with all of its charm and friendliness, elegant architecture, incredible natural beauty and the true experience of genteel southern living.

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