The third woman to influence Miami was Barbara Baer Capitman. During the 1970s, she organized a campaign to save Art Deco style buildings in the city of Miami Beach.
Many business people and local officials opposed Barbara Capitman’s efforts. They saw old and damaged buildings, but she saw historic architecture.
She succeeded in having the Art Deco area added to the National Register of Historic Places. Miami Beach is now famous for the more than 800 colorful buildings designed in the Art Deco style.
Miami Today
Today, about two million people live in and around Miami-Dade County. Many adults leave colder climates to retire in its warm weather.
Miami is also home to many immigrants from around the world. About 50 percent of people in the Miami area come from Spanish-speaking countries in Central America and South America. Haitians are the second largest immigrant group. Canadians sometimes call the Miami area Quebec-in-the-Tropics because so many French Canadians retire there.
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Miami has thousands of manufacturing companies. The port of Miami is a center for international trade and passenger ships. The warm weather has helped the local agriculture industry grow to be one of the largest in the United States.
Tourism is another of the city’s most important industries. About ten million people visit Miami every year. There are more visitors from other countries than from the United States.
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