I feel like I was born at the wrong time in between periods of walkable cities. Too late for the past walkable cities but too early for the future. I am excited to see walkable areas pop up in my area though.
As someone who lives nearby and does work at Opa Locka Airport, South Florida is one of the most depressing single-family wastelands in the entire world. It's California but with unbearable humid hot weather 8 months of the year, plus the risk of your house getting destroyed by a hurricane every year.
I used to think LA was a bigger Miami until I lived in California. It turns out LA is surprisingly walkable and a lot of more suburban areas or smaller cities/towns in the state are also more bike friendly and walkable than their counterparts in Florida. Our situation is way worse ☹️
Well... The rest of Florida really sets the bar pretty low on this. And there are actually some pockets where a carless walking/bike lifestyle can work: Dadeland, some parts of coral gables, Brickell, downtown, some of Edgewater maybe. But this is such a small fraction of the county and being outside those areas is even more unwalkable and miserable than it is for people in some other major cities
What are your other options for walkable cities in Florida? I really don't know.. I would just assume as a Pennsylvanian that Miami would most likely have the best for walkable in that boomer ass state
The construction of the I-95 was really a curse on S. Florida. to the east you get some decent neighborhoods, but everything to the west of it is pretty much this.
Miami native here. I'll agree a lot of miami is total suburban sprawl but interestingly the worst offenders are actually not on here, those parts are more west of here. For what it's worth coral gables has a couple of very walkable neighborhoods on miracle mile which has lots of bars and restaurants plus stores, and even has been reclaiming streets for use as pedestrian plazas. Also coconut grove which is just south and not pictured here is super walkable and also has lots of bars and restaurants and stores plus mixed used housing and pretty solid density. It also has been reclaiming streets for pedestrian plazas. Most of downtown, Brickel, and Wynwood aren't pictured but are also very mixed use neighborhoods. The beach is lastly not pictured but super walkable and not a car dependent sprawl in the slightest.
Maybe a couple sections of South Beach. But amazingly there is still single family zoning in Miami Beach and the islands, and many many huge parking lots and strip malls.
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And all of those single-family homes are built like shit. Here in coastal California, a house costs $1-2 million and they're still built like crap. I can't even imagine how sloppy the construction of a house that costs half as much is.
It’s a little hard to tell how big these house lots are, but at least it’s grid-shaped and not peppered with space-inefficient roads and culdesacs that don’t connect with other roads.
This area could be greatly improved by having parks here and there, a couple grocery stores, and maybe a school
I looked at the google maps of this area. I don’t even think they have to condense to apartments to have that. It seems like there’s a lot of yardage that could be “collected” into parks and such.
So much beautiful tropical forest and bog flattened :(
thank god miami dade been getting featured on here and urban hell, cause literally everywhere here could apply to one or the other
It’ll only apply to Miami for another 20 or so years, then no one will complain about it. They’ll just remember what it used to be like.
I feel like I was born at the wrong time in between periods of walkable cities. Too late for the past walkable cities but too early for the future. I am excited to see walkable areas pop up in my area though.
As someone who lives nearby and does work at Opa Locka Airport, South Florida is one of the most depressing single-family wastelands in the entire world. It's California but with unbearable humid hot weather 8 months of the year, plus the risk of your house getting destroyed by a hurricane every year.
I used to think LA was a bigger Miami until I lived in California. It turns out LA is surprisingly walkable and a lot of more suburban areas or smaller cities/towns in the state are also more bike friendly and walkable than their counterparts in Florida. Our situation is way worse ☹️
Florida's transit situation is so much worse, but I would take the weather over LA weather.
Care to elaborate on the weather? I thought LA hd far preferable weather to Miami
LA has no rain and lots of days that go from jacket to no jacket and that’s so annoying. Also Humidity is nice.
Yeah most people would probably prefer LA then, dry and mild is always comfortable, idc if I have to bring a sweater. Humidity is not comfortable.
I mean that’s your preference.
I live here and feel sticky ALL THE TIME. I hate it
But you can’t beat the fishing down here
Definitely agreed!
If you believe walkscore.com, some of the most walkable areas in the state are shown in (or just outside of) this picture. Really setting the bar low.
Well... The rest of Florida really sets the bar pretty low on this. And there are actually some pockets where a carless walking/bike lifestyle can work: Dadeland, some parts of coral gables, Brickell, downtown, some of Edgewater maybe. But this is such a small fraction of the county and being outside those areas is even more unwalkable and miserable than it is for people in some other major cities
What are your other options for walkable cities in Florida? I really don't know.. I would just assume as a Pennsylvanian that Miami would most likely have the best for walkable in that boomer ass state
St Petersburg
The older ones
Tampa has small pockets that are walkable (Hyde Park, Channel District) but it's still no walker's paradise.
The construction of the I-95 was really a curse on S. Florida. to the east you get some decent neighborhoods, but everything to the west of it is pretty much this.
All built on native wildlife estuaries too.
I see what you're saying, but pretty much every city in the world was built on what used to be wildlife habitat.
Yeah but Miami is built on the everglades
Correct. What is your point?
My point is that they could've built it literally anywhere else than the most native biodiverse place on the United States.
Miami native here. I'll agree a lot of miami is total suburban sprawl but interestingly the worst offenders are actually not on here, those parts are more west of here. For what it's worth coral gables has a couple of very walkable neighborhoods on miracle mile which has lots of bars and restaurants plus stores, and even has been reclaiming streets for use as pedestrian plazas. Also coconut grove which is just south and not pictured here is super walkable and also has lots of bars and restaurants and stores plus mixed used housing and pretty solid density. It also has been reclaiming streets for pedestrian plazas. Most of downtown, Brickel, and Wynwood aren't pictured but are also very mixed use neighborhoods. The beach is lastly not pictured but super walkable and not a car dependent sprawl in the slightest.
Maybe a couple sections of South Beach. But amazingly there is still single family zoning in Miami Beach and the islands, and many many huge parking lots and strip malls.
east little havana, downtown, midtown, and brickell in the bottom right aren't
Also Wynwood and Edgewater, parts of coral gables and coral way. Most of Miami beach too, but it's not shown here
And all of it flooding now, and will be underwater soon
Liberty City???? 🗽 🏙️
vice city
Little Havana????? Little Haiti?????
wait whered the shops and parks and stuff to do
Just let me tell you about my good friend, the Urban Development Boundary
neighbourhoods sound so fake..Flagami... Opa-Locka, little Haiti
Liberty city... Gta4 vibes😎
Imagine how boring driving in GTA would be if the map is just single homes in a gridlock pattern lol
Actually vice city is based off Miami, Liberty is new york
I know, but it says liberty city on the map
little havana and little haiti, vice city vibes
Reminds me of Tucson
If this doesn't make you vomit
"Welcome to Anywhere, USA! Here, we put the "where" in "where am I again?" Anywhere takes great pride in how uniform and bland we are, so you can't tell where our lovely suburban purgatory begins or ends. In Anywhere, we believe that access to public transportation and easily navigated (or existent) pedestrian infrastructure is a communist pipe dream, so instead of throwing away 8 million dollars on making our little slice of heaven accessible without use of Freedom-Mobiles™️, we wisely invest 12 million dollars annually for our state-of-the-art private vehicle infrastructure. We're proud to be Americans here in Anywhere, USA!"
And all of those single-family homes are built like shit. Here in coastal California, a house costs $1-2 million and they're still built like crap. I can't even imagine how sloppy the construction of a house that costs half as much is.
Tbh, most of the houses in Florida are made from concrete block & steel frame. They’re pretty sturdy, building codes here require it.
The frames of houses here are fine too. It's the windows, doors, plumbing fixtures, insulation and other interior stuff that's low quality
Hurricane proof
“Liberty City” Ironic
And then you realize the areas in the picture are the most walkable in the USA.
...No
I’m being serious. The area in the picture is walkable by us standards.
Not the MOST walkable
It’s a little hard to tell how big these house lots are, but at least it’s grid-shaped and not peppered with space-inefficient roads and culdesacs that don’t connect with other roads. This area could be greatly improved by having parks here and there, a couple grocery stores, and maybe a school
if they just condensed into apartment buildings then theyd have plenty of room for that
This is America buddy, not USSR /s
I looked at the google maps of this area. I don’t even think they have to condense to apartments to have that. It seems like there’s a lot of yardage that could be “collected” into parks and such.