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.

Founded in 1995 as the Human Services Coalition by Daniella Levine, Catalyst Miami is a non-profit community activist group. Utilizing a vast network of partner organizations and numerous initiatives, Catalyst seeks to equip the socially disadvantaged with financial and healthcare information, public benefits, and educational and economic opportunities. Through programs such as the Prosperity Campaign and Public Allies, Catalyst Miami promotes self-sufficiency, participation in civic life, organizational strength and respect.

This collection contains seven series including: Administrative Files, Initiatives, Conference Materials, Audiovisual Materials, and more. Within these series are various forms of correspondence, training materials, schedules and agendas, promotional materials, newspaper articles and photographs. The documents help reveal the social activist nature of the organization and shed light on some of the many accomplishments it has made through the years.

1 binder with 63 fold out approx. 11x24.5 overhead aerial photographs compiled into soil survey maps. A letter sized 1972 Dade County street map is used as the index. Each map has the same caption.
"This soil survey map was compiled by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Soil Conservation Service, and cooperating agencies. Base maps are orthophotographs prepared by the U.S. Department of Interior, Geological Survey from 1985 aerial photography. Coordinate grid ticks and land division corners, if shown, are approximately positioned."

Daniella Levine Cava was elected as the Miami-Dade County Commissioner in 2014 and 2018, representing District 8. Her collection contains materials from her successful 2014 campaign, including correspondence, interviews, and periodicals documenting her initiatives on the campaign trail.

Slides showing McClave building in Key Biscayne and film photograph showing close up of building

The Funding Arts Network is a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting the arts in Miami-Dade County through publicly funding grants for various art-related institutions, events, projects, and educational initiatives. The organization originally formed in 1996 under the name of Fifty over Fifty, Inc. with the initial goal of recruiting 50 members who would each contribute $1,000 a year to form a pool of $50,000 that would be endowed to the arts. Both the award pool and membership grew considerably over time, and by 2018, they had funded over 108 art organizations and had awarded $4,822,600 in grants. Their records contain past grant applications, newsletters, correspondence, contracts, awards, audio-visual materials, press clippings, bylaws, reports, minutes, membership lists, and other administrative documents for the organization.

Blueprints from the Historic American Buildings Survey of the Biscayne Bay Yacht Club in Coconut Grove and the National Audubon Society House in South Miami.

"Hope Amid Chaos: An Architectural Plan for South Dade." A student publication with Felipe J. Prestamo as professor. Summer 1993.

The International Union of Operating Engineers (IUOE) is a progressive, diversified trade union that primarily represents operating engineers, who work as heavy equipment operators, mechanics, and surveyors in the construction industry, and stationary engineers, who work in operations and maintenance in building and industrial complexes, and in the service industries. IUOE also represents nurses and other health industry workers, a significant number of public employees engaged in a wide variety of occupations, as well as a number of job classifications in the petrochemical industry (https://www.iuoe.org/). This collection focuses on Local 487, based in Miami, FL, and their minutes and bylaws from 1911 to 2012.

The Katy Sorenson papers document the career of Kathryn “Katy” Sorenson, a former Miami-Dade County Commissioner (District 8) for 16 years, from 1994–2010. As commissioner she was concerned with human rights, the environment, child welfare and the arts.  After leaving the County Commission, Sorenson founded the Good Government Initiative at the University of Miami to cultivate strong political leaders in South Florida. The collection consists primarily of campaign files, along with a number of scrapbooks and government and other documents relating to Sorenson’s terms as commissioner.

Marsha Matson is a council member of the city of Palmetto Bay and a former professor of the University of Miami who retired after teaching American government, local government, and public administration for 22 years. This collection consists of reports, correspondence, audio-visual materials, newsclippings, financial records and other documents pertaining to district and municipal zoning in Miami-Dade County and the incorporation of Doral.

The 2017 Miami as Sanctuary Jurisdiction Twitter Archive contains data set of tweets collected from the Twitter microblogging platform documenting the status of Miami-Dade as a sanctuary jurisdiction for immigrants to the United States.

Special Collections collected tweets relating to the following phrases and hashtags: #miamisanctuarycity, Miami #sanctuarycounty, #miamisanctuarycounty, and Miami #sancturarycity.

The tweets collected by Special Collections for this data archive do not represent an exhaustive or complete record of all tweets relating to the targeted hashtags due to restrictions on tweet volume accessed via the Twitter API.

This collection contains meeting minutes and agendas from the Miami-Dade County Board of Public Instruction and the Board of County Commissioners, spanning from 1962-1965.

Land-use and topographical maps, 1993-2005

Submission Packet for 2004 Charter Awards. Miami-Dade County, FL

Images of the docks exterior

Handwritten caption reads "Design of Sunset Elementary's International Plaza was donated by U.M. Center for Urban & Community Design."

"A project submitted to the faculty of the School of Architecture [University of Miami] in partial fulfillment of the requirements for Magna Cum Laude Graduation Honors."
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 78-79)

Submission Packet for 2008 Charter Awards. Urban Design Manual.

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.