Seaside is a planned, mixed generation community in Florida's Panhandle,midway between Fort Walton Beach and Panama City.  It is one of the first examples of the New Urbanism style of architecture, a retrospective treatment in which houses have front porches and people are encouraged to walk rather than drive their cars. Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk were the architects. Driveways…...

Toledo is a city of over 300,000 people in northwestern Ohio. The city is located on Lake Erie and the Maumee River.  The city has a proud past and many fine institutions. Many of the suburbs are quite nice. Photo of Aerial view of Maumee Bay State Park on Lake Erie courtesy of Wikipedia and Ken Winters, U.S. Army Corps…...

Cambridge, Maryland, is a historic waterfront community and is the county seat of Dorchester County.  It is one of the oldest colonial cities in Maryland and named after the English colonist who settled it in 1684.  The city, located on the Chesapeake peninsula on Maryland's Eastern Shore, had a population of just over 12,000 at the 2010. Photo of Poplar…...

Martha's Vineyard is a large and affluent island about 7 miles off the coast of Cape Cod in Massachusetts.  The year round population is about 16,000 but during the summer months it swells over 100,000. Several U.S. Presidents have spent their summer vacations here, notably Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.  According to this quote from Wikipedia, Martha's Vineyard is made…...