THE GREATEST ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM BOOK LIST EVER -- 1 THROUGH 50

THE GREATEST ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM BOOK LIST EVER -- 1 THROUGH 50

1. Historical Sketches and Sidelights of Miami, Florida/Cohen
2. The Making of Miami Beach 1933-1941/LeJeune/Shulman
3. Miami/Weisdorf
4. Hollywood Florida/Wilpon
5. Deco Delights Preserving the Beauty and Joy of Miami Beach Architecture/Capitman and Brooke

6. Tropical Deco The Architecture and Design of Old Miami Beach/Rizzoli

7. Miami/Visalli

8. Miami/Howard

9. Miami/Stortini (Whitecap)

10. The Life and Times of Miami Beach/Armbruster

11. South Beach/Wisser

12. South Beach Style/Brooke

13. Building Marvelous Miami/Patricios

14. Saving South Beach/Stofik

15. Miami City-Ciudad plus Façade of Ocean Drive/Between 5-15 streets

16. Miami Ciudad-City 2007

17. Miami Trends and Traditions/Schezen and Dunlop

18. Miami: Mediterranean Splendor and Deco Dreams/Dunlop

19. The New Cities: Modern Cities/Lejeune

20. Miami Tropical: Architecture and Urbanism in Las Americas/Aula 3

21. Miami Hot and Cool/Cerwinske and Brooke
22. Miami, Architecture of the Tropics/Culot, Lejeune
23. Miami’s Historic Neighborhoods/Matkov
24. Miami City of Dreams/Maltz
25. Miami, the Magic City (Urban Tapestry Series)/Veciana-Suarez
26. Miami, the Magic City/Parks
27. Miami, The Magic City: Images of America/Bramson
28. Miami Beach: Images of America/Bramson
29. Boulevard of Dreams: A Pictorial History of Biscayne Park, Miami Shores and North Miami/Bramson
30. Miami Architecture: An AIA Guide Featuring Downtown, the Beaches, and Coconut Grove/Shulman, Robinson & Donnelly
31. Stucco and Pastels: Scenes and Structures along Miami's Allapattah Rail/Mindheim
32. Miami Interiors/Taschen
33. Miami Houses/Reschke
34. Moon Over Miami/Jack Kofoed
35. The Florida Story/Kofoed
36. Miami The American Crossroad/Parks and Bush
37. Miami Memoirs/John Sewell (new pictorial edition by Arva Moore Parks)
38. Memories of Old Miami/Frazure&Smiley
39. Miami: Oasis/Guerrini
40. Romer’s Miami
41. Miami Beach: Blueprint of an Eden: Lives Seen Through the Prism of Family and Place/Doner-Wolfson-Gordon
42. Miami Gateway to the Americas/Gonzalez-Pando
43. South Beach Deco – Step by Step/Chase & Russell
44. A Walking Tour of Lincoln Road, South Beach/Plotner
45. Ocean Drive Guidebook: Ask a Local/Plotner
46. Miami Then and Now/Parks (2003 Version)
47. Miami Then & Now/Parks (1993 Version)
48. Miami in the Spotlight/Greater Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau
49. Miami The Sophisticated Tropics/Beebe
50. Historic Landscapes of Florida/Ceo and Lombard

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DESIGN FOR ALL FOUNDATION

The multiligual Francesc Aragall runs Design for All Foundation from beautiful Barcelona.

The organization is a wealth of knowledge about design for people with disabilities.

His Flag Cities program has encourage municipalities all over Europe to adopt a code of conduct for improving mobility and livability for disabled people.


http://designforall.org/

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US GREEN BUILDING COUNCIL AND LEED

Is there green washing going on? Sure.

Has green building become as fad as popular with celebrities and giving their kids weird names? Yep.

Is there any doubt that we can't keep producing sprawl with throwaway strip malls, housing, etc.? Absolutely.

That's why we need LEED-certification and why everyone should bookmarke the U.S. Green Building Council's website.



http://www.usgbc.org/DisplayPage.aspx?CMSPageID=1988

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Doug Farr is one of our favorite preservationists.

He's also a quote machine for contenct-hungry smart growth journalists.

Farr is one of the leaders in the Green Architecture movement, helping to form what is now the standard measure for sustainability -- LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design)

And just how does he call his website the Farrside without upsetting Gary Larson (even with that extra R)?!

FARR ASSOCIATES -- Architecture Planning Preservation
http://www.farrside.com/Default.aspx

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DUANY PLATER-ZYBERK AND COMPANY (DPZ)

Andres Duany is a smug SOB.

Arrogant too.

But when you give birth to a movement, we suppose you're allowed to let your ego get in the way of things.

Duany's also a rock star when it comes to entertaining audiences -- both experts and lay persons -- with anecdotes and a comic sense of timing that turns potentially bland planning into a life process seemingly as essential as breathing.

Lizz Plater-Zyberk is the more softly spoken of the pair.

But she's brilliant and somehow manages to lead the University of Miami's School of Architecture as dean for nearly a decade, while also continuing to develop the New Urbanism.

Together, the pair created Miami 21 -- the form based code adopted by our folkloric hometown.

http://www.dpz.com/

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J A I M E C O R R E A A N D A S S O C I A T E S
Architectural Design • Regulations • Urban Design

Jaime Correa is one of the most down-to-earth, self-depricating brilliant people you will ever find.

Besides holding a professorship at the University of Miami, Correa is active all over the globe in advocating for properly-scaled urban design.

http://correa-associates.com/

SETH HARRY & ASSOCIATES, INC. Architects and Planners

The world needs more Seth Harrys.

He is more than an architect.

He is more than a town planner.

He is an expert at urbanism who also is a gifted artist that pains haunting watercolors of main streets, town centers and other elements of good planning.

Seth also is a gentleman who always has time for writers, students, fellow urbanists, etc.

His undertanding of retail and the changing urban economy is better (and much more eloquently spoken) than the most PHd economists.

http://www.sethharry.com/