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The Urban Environment League is a non-profit organization originally created in 1996 under the leadership and guidance of Gregory Bush, a professor at the University of Miami's History department and the Institute for Public History. The organization is dedicated to promoting safe and responsible practices in urban development in Miami-Dade through education and by advocating for environmental reform and legal protections for historical landmarks. Their records contain several issues of their internal newsletter, the Urban Forum; membership lists; minutes; correspondence; pamphlets; flyers; brochures; periodicals; research files on historical landmarks in Greater Miami, and urban planning; financial records; administrative files; ephemera; audio-visual materials (floppy disks and negatives); and legal files.

Report (American Planning Association. Planning Advisory Service), no. 430 series.
Available at www.planning.org

The Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU) Records Collection includes annual conference programs, promotional materials, attendance lists, correspondence, audio visual recordings, research project materials, publications, award submission packets, award programs, and administrative files relating to the CNU’s annual congress meeting, annual Charter Awards, board meetings, research projects, and CNU publications. The records cover the organization's activities between 1991 and 2017.

Collection contains architectural drawings, site plans, photographs, reports.

Traditional Neighborhood Design

Original drawn, sketched, or drafted maps and plans for a project for the course ARC 510 Spring 1994. Topics were planning for the Miami Intermodal Center and the East/West Corridor Study. Various maps of Metropolitan Miami-Dade were created for reference on tourism, rail lines, freight transportation, transit, political districts, community boundaries, water and green spaces, public building locations, "events and destinations corridor," and general land-use maps.
Some data credited to Florida Power & Light. "Prof. Kaul" and "Prof. Valle" are mentioned. Student names include Markus A. Ketnath, Zaidi Mohd Daud, and Kristi Kenney.

A study of the industrial sector of Coral Gables by a graduate studio for the Master of Suburb and Town Design program. Fall 1994 semester.

This file was a loosely combined stack of materials on planning and revitalizing West Coconut Grove. This file includes master plan drafts and proofs with notes, UM-SoA studio projects, and other related research including photocopied maps, photos, 1990 census data, and older project plans.

Audio recording of the "Design for Existing Neighborhoods: Case Studies of Successful Infil Development" session of CNU 2000. Panelists discuss their experience in successfully integrating infill into existing neighborhoods and gaining the community's trust.

Audio recording of the "Information Technology for Community Design" session of CNU 2000. Panelists discuss new tools, such as GIS and the Internet, to engage communities in the planning process.

Audio recording of the "Town Funding and Community Building" session of CNU 2000. Panelists compare the process of creating a livable community in a new and revitalizing neighborhood.

Audio recording of the "Public Space and Cyberspace" session of CNU 2000. Panelists discuss how they manage to overcome some of the obstacles of building consensus and securing commitment form the many municipalities in a metropolitan area.

Audio recording of the "Town Funding and Community Building" session of CNU 2000. Panelists compare the process of creating a livable community in a new and revitalizing neighborhood.

A description of student work on architecture and urban planning. In the beginning credits Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company for the transect used.

Content: New urbanism and codes / Jonathan Barnett -- New urbanist essentials / Joel Russell -- Putting new urbanism to work in your community / Joel Russell -- From building to region: new urbanist regulations in place / Ellen Greenberg -- Creating a local government system that promotes new urbanism / Paul Crawford -- Appendix A: summary table of new urbanist land development regulations -- Appendix B: Charter of the new urbanism.

The New Urbanism is the only distinctly American architectural movement of the 20th Century that systemically critiqued the conventional urban planning patterns of the post-war period. The University of Miami Libraries Architecture Research Center Archives is the sole repository for collecting and housing materials documenting this movement that impacted the discourse on urbanization theories and town planning. The principles of the movement were articulated in 1994 in the Charter of the Congress for The New Urbanism. The Congress for the New Urbanism, an organization that promotes walkable, mixed-use neighborhood development and sustainable communities was recognized by the New York Times as "…the most important phenomenon to emerge in American Architecture in the post-Cold-War era."
The New Urbanism movement, which signaled a turning point from the segregated planning and architecture of post-war America to a return to historic principles of traditional town planning, became the focus of a series of contested dialogues not just among architects, planners and developers, but among historians, environmentalists and policy makers as well. The movement continues to influence the principles of town planning and design, and spark debate among its advocates and critics as evidenced in the public fora thirty years following its inception.
This collection includes drawings, project folios, books and manuscripts, periodicals, article clippings, correspondence, videos, CDs, DVDs, audio cassettes and other materials related to New Urbanism theory, writing, and design.