Town Design
A town designed on purpose
Celebration is America's best-known New Urbanist experiment: a walkable Market Street downtown, civic buildings by famous architects, and a CDD + HOA structure doing a city's job.
HomeTown Design
The local angle
What the plan actually does
Built in the mid-1990s, Celebration put New Urbanist ideas on the ground at town scale: houses with deep front porches and alley-loaded garages, a downtown on Market Street facing a central lake, and civic buildings from architects like Philip Johnson, Michael Graves, and Cesar Pelli, all inside a plan by Robert A. M. Stern and Jaquelin T. Robertson.
There is no city hall. The Celebration Community Development District maintains infrastructure and parks (billed on the property-tax bill), the Residential Owners Association handles amenities and covenants, and Osceola County provides sheriff, fire, and land-use authority. Budget for both the CDD assessment and the association dues when weighing a home here — our HOA & CDD guide explains the mechanics.