TY - BOOK ID - 30762774 TI - Miami. PY - 2013 SN - 9780983820482 0983820481 PB - New York Clog DB - UniCat KW - Architecture KW - 711.4(C)(73) KW - Steden ; vormgeving ; analyse ; 21ste eeuw ; Miami KW - Steden ; Miami KW - Architecture, Western (Western countries) KW - Building design KW - Buildings KW - Construction KW - Western architecture (Western countries) KW - Art KW - Building KW - Stedenbouw. Ruimtelijke ordening ; vormgeving en analyse van de stad ; Verenigde Staten KW - Design and construction KW - Miami (Fla.) KW - Buildings, structures, etc. KW - Architecture. KW - Buildings. KW - Florida KW - City of Miami (Fla.) KW - ميامي (Fla.) KW - Mayāmī (Fla.) KW - Mīyāmī (Fla.) KW - Маями (Fla.) KW - Mai︠a︡mi (Fla.) KW - Μαϊάμι (Fla.) KW - Miamo (Fla.) KW - 마이애미 (Fla.) KW - Maiaemi (Fla.) KW - Майами (Fla.) KW - מיאמי (Fla.) KW - Miamia (Fla.) KW - Majamis (Fla.) KW - Мајами (Fla.) KW - Majami (Fla.) KW - マイアミ (Fla.) KW - Маямі (Fla.) KW - 迈阿密 (Fla.) KW - Architecture, Primitive UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:30762774 AB - "The largest city in the southeastern United States, Miami has long been subject to a range of unique forces--natural, political, and cultural--which have brought both booms and devastating busts. Despite setbacks, however, Miami has become a dynamic and broadly American city that mixes the historically Anglo-dominated North and the Latin South, vividly presenting many characteristics of today's United States: cosmopolitanism, an ever- shifting balance between public and private interests, economic volatility, and environmental tightrope walking. When it comes to architecture, something is definitely happening in Miami. Not only is real estate and development booming, but recently, significant civic projects have demonstrated a potentially serious public/private commitment to infuse the commons with design and the arts, as seen in the Wynwood Art District and Art Basel Miami. Miami invented a strand of mid- century Modernism, epitomized the design aesthetic of the 1980s, hosted the major intellectual center of the New Urbanism movement, and is now providing opportunities to a new (and hungry) crop of international architects in projects like the Miami Beach Convention Center, Coconut Grove, the New World Center, One Thousand Museum Tower, the Perez Art Museum Miami, 1111 Lincoln Road, and more. This issue presents the beginning of a critical discussion on contemporary architecture in a city with a short but vibrant past and exciting future--Miami"--Provided by publisher. ER -