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Cities & Buildings Database
The Cities/Buildings Database is a collection of digitized images of buildings and cities drawn from across time and throughout the world, available to students, researchers and educators on the web.
Great Buildings Database
This gateway to architecture around the world and across history documents a thousand buildings and hundreds of leading architects, selected over ten years by the editors of ArchitectureWeek, with photographic images and architectural drawings, integrated maps and timelines, 3D building models, commentaries, bibliographies, web links, and more, for famous designers and structures of all kinds.
National Register of Historic Places Program: Research
The National Register of Historic Places is the official list of the Nation's historic places worthy of preservation. Authorized by the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, the National Park Service's National Register of Historic Places is part of a national program to coordinate and support public and private efforts to identify, evaluate, and protect America's historic and archaeological resources.

City-Data
By collecting and analyzing data from numerous sources, we're able to create detailed, informative profiles of all cities in the United States. From crime rates to weather patterns, you can find the data you're looking for on City-Data.com.
MyBest Segments: Zip Code Look-up
Nielsen's lifestyle segmentation systems define every household in the U.S. by distinct lifestyle types, called "segments", to provide you with a comprehensive picture of who lives where and what they are like. Marketers use these insights to create more effective and efficient marketing strategies.
The Real Deal
South Florida Real Estate News
Curbed Miami
Curbed's city sites breathe life into real estate and neighborhood news with witty and insightful coverage of the country's most vibrant urban centers.

Miami-Dade Transit
Almanac: Weather History
Get past weather reports with the Almanac weather history tool. Find historical weather data by zip code, accessing weather archives for more than 1,300 stations across United States and Canada, going back to 1960.
SunEarthTools.com

ADA Standards for Accessible Design
Laws, regulations, design standards, and technical assistance materials to comply with the the American's with Disabilities Act of 1990.
OSHA: Ergonomics
Work-related MSDs can be prevented. Ergonomics --- fitting a job to a person --- helps lessen muscle fatigue, increases productivity and reduces the number and severity of work-related MSDs.
National Center for Preservation Technology and Training
NCPTT advances the application of science and technology to historic preservation. Working in the fields of archeology, architecture, landscape architecture and materials conservation, the Center accomplishes its mission through training, education, research, technology transfer and partnerships.
OSHA Law & Regulations
This page contains links to all current OSHA standards, provides information on the rulemaking process used to develop workplace health and safety standards, and includes links to all Federal Register notices that are currently open for comment.

Getty Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Thousands of AAT terms are added and edited every year. As of 26 May 2015, the AAT contains around 41,855 published 'records,' 56,819 including candidates (unpublished). The total number of terms is 353,285.

Oxford Art Online
Please note: this license is for 3 simultaneous users.
Oxford Art Online offers access to the most authoritative, inclusive, and easily searchable online art resources available today. Through a single gateway, users can access and cross-search Oxford’s acclaimed, regularly updated art reference works: the Grove Dictionary of Art and the Benezit Dictionary of Artists. Grove Art is the foremost scholarly art encyclopedia, offering global coverage of visual culture, composed and expanded in collaboration with thousands of scholars and specialists around the world. Benezit offers unique information about the sale and collection of artists’ work, and it is one of the most comprehensive and definitive resources of artists’ biographies available. In addition, users can search and access Oxford art reference titles including the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics (2nd edition), The Oxford Companion to Western Art, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms.
Dictionary of Architecture & Landscape Architecture, A
1999, 2000, 2006; NOTE: you must go through "off-campus access" to access the full-text of this title; Includes entries on architects, terms, periods, and styles, covering all periods of Western architectural history; Biographies range from Brunelleschi and Imhotep to Le Corbusier and Richard Rogers; New entries include definitions of landscape terms, and biographies of modern architects; Each entry is followed by a mini-bibliography, with suggestions for further reading.

South Florida Archives

Miami on the Web
South Florida Archives

AIA Miami Historic Preservation Activities
Many AIA Miami architects have been involved in the city’s historic preservation projects, and the chapter also has played a key role in educating the public about the importance of historic preservation.
City of Miami: Historic Preservation
This website features detailed information about the City's locally designated historic sites and districts; the process and criteria related to the designation of historic sites and districts; and Design Guidelines and Standards for obtaining Certificates of Appropriateness (COA) for new construction, alterations, additions, relocations, or demolitions within a historic site, district, or archaeological zone.
Dade Heritage Trust
Dade Heritage Trust is presenting a new Historic Designation service to assist you in determining if your home or commercial building is eligible for designation and handle the designation process for you.
FLASHBACK MIAMI
Miami Herald Store features over 1,000 available historical photos.
History Miami: Archives and Research Center
The HistoryMiami Archives and Research Center collects, safeguards, and makes accessible materials that document the Miami region, South Florida and the Caribbean. It houses HistoryMiami’s archives and non-circulating library, and is open to the public.
History of South Florida Building Code
Miami-Dade Planning: Historic Preservation
Currently, the County oversees 127 individually designated historic sites, 43 archaeological sites and zones and five historic districts. The County also serves as the historic preservation staff for the 24 municipalities that do not have their own preservation program or ordinance.
Miami-Dade Property Appraiser: Historic Properties
Classification and assessment of historic properties for the purpose of Ad-Valorem tax exemption
Miami Archives Blog
Blog devoted to the history of Miami through ads, media, and photographs.
Miami Design Preservation League
Miami Design Preservation League's image catalogue of historic buildings in Miami Beach
Miami Herald: Archives & Research Center
Photos from the Miami Herald & community contributors.
Miami Walking Tour: Art Deco District
Miami Beach's Art Deco District is the first 20th-century neighborhood to be recognized by the National Register of Historic Places, with 800 structures of historical significance, most built between 1923 and 1943. The fanciful pastel buildings, with porthole windows, ship-like railings, sleek curves, glass blocks, shiny chrome, and gleaming terrazzo floors are prime eye candy.
National Registry of Historic Places: Dade County
List of functionalities & significance of historic places
New Tropic: How selling rights to the sky keeps Miami’s historic buildings alive
Historic preservation in Miami only began to take shape in the late 1970s, when county officials woke up to the danger that rampant development might end up demolishing the city’s most iconic properties and residential neighborhoods. In 1981, the county issued the Dade County Historic Preservation Ordinance to try and stop it.
The New Tropic: Stories about History
The New Tropic makes local media and events that help our fellow Miamians explore and connect with the fascinating, lovably eccentric city we call home.
NPS.gov: Miami Beach Architectural District
The Miami Beach Architectural District (sometimes called the Art Deco District) contains the largest concentration of 1920s and 1930s resort architecture in the United States.
South Florida Business Journal
News source for all things business in South Florida.
Wolfsonian: Research / Library
The Wolfsonian's collections comprise approximately 150,000 objects from the period of 1885 to 1945—the height of the Industrial Revolution to the end of the Second World War—in a variety of media including furniture; industrial-design objects; works in glass, ceramics, and metal; rare books; periodicals; ephemera; works on paper; paintings; textiles; and medals.

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Wolfson Florida Moving Image Archives
Founded in 1984, the Lynn and Louis Wolfson II Florida Moving Image Archives houses over 35,000 hours of video tape and 23 million feet of film.

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