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The New Deal in South Florida

Name: The New Deal in South Florida
Author: John A. Stuart
ISBN: 9780813081892

Design, Policy, and Community Building, 1933-1940

Edited by John A. Stuart and John F. Stack Jr.

Published by: University Press of Florida

Series: The Florida History and Culture Series

Combining design history and political science, this book explores the impact of New Deal projects on South Florida's urban development and architecture.

272 Pages6.00 × 9.0089 b/w illus., notes, bibliography, index

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9780813081892
Published: December 1, 2026

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Revealing how the New Deal impacted South Florida's design and development

The New Deal sought to restore national economic strength in part by reallocating resources and restructuring local landscapes. Few parts of the country were transformed as significantly as South Florida.

Blurring the traditional disciplinary boundaries of design history and political science, the contributors to The New Deal in South Florida explore the impact of a wide variety of New Deal projects on the region. They examine letters and photographs—many never before published—and public murals, housing, parks, and architectural and community design.

Heavily illustrated, this book offers historians and enthusiasts of Florida history a unique perspective on South Florida's growth during the 1930s. It reveals how Coral Gables, Miami Beach, Miami, and other communities were permanently altered by the impact of New Deal programs. It also reveals hidden gems of architecture and visual art that still exist today.

The work of editors John Stuart and John Stack highlights the importance of New Deal projects to the area's development into one of the nation's premier urban districts and tourist destinations.

John A. Stuart is distinguished professor of architecture at Florida International University. He translated from the German, illustrated, and wrote the critical introduction for The Gray Cloth: Paul Scheerbart's Novel on Glass Architecture and is coauthor of Ely Jacques Kahn, Architect: Beaux-Arts to Modernism in New York. John F. Stack Jr. (1950–2022) was the founding dean of Florida International University’s Steven J. Green School of International and Public Aﬀairs, director of FIU’s Jack D. Gordon Institute for Public Policy and Citizenship Studies, and professor of law. His books include Globalization: Debunking the Myths and At War with Civil Rights and Civil Liberties.

"A valuable study of how national policy was translated into social and cultural realities in one of America's most unique landscapes and what that local transformation tells us about the limits and achievements of national reform efforts."—Carroll Van West, Middle Tennessee State University

“Add[s] to our understanding of the New Deal’s far-flung impact on American life. . . . Readers . . . will profit from these thoughtful excursions into the politics of (in the words of the book’s subtitle) ‘Design, Policy, and Community Building’ in South Florida.”—Labor History
“A useful addition to the growing body of literature analyzing the locale-specific footprints of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s revolution. . . . Scholars interested in the material culture of the period will find stimulating models for new lines of inquiry.”—Journal of Southern History
“A fine multidisciplinary collection about an important and heretofore rather neglected subject.”—H-Net

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Foreword

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1. The New Deal in South Florida
John F. Stack Jr. and John A. Stuart

Chapter 2. Constructing Identity: Building and Place in New Deal South Florida
John A. Stuart

Chapter 3. Migrants, Millionaires, and Tourists: Marion Post Wolcott’s Photographs of a Changing Miami and South Florida
Mary N. Woods

Chapter 4. Whose History Is It Anyway? New Deal Post Office Murals in South Florida
Marianne Lamonaca

Chapter 5. The Civilian Conservation Corps in South Florida
Ted Baker

Chapter 6. Liberty Square: Florida’s First Public Housing Project
John A. Stuart

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Index

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The New Deal in South Florida

Design, Policy, and Community Building, 1933-1940

The New Deal in South Florida

Design, Policy, and Community Building, 1933-1940

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