What does urban/suburban/rural look like to you? (map, highway, transportation)
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This is where I currently live, a suburb about 18 miles north of downtown Miami. Note the high rises are widely separated (parking lots, landscaping), set back far from the roads, and some of them don't have sidewalks! You can imagine how rush hour traffic can get since every one of those windows represents a car on the road.
This is where I currently live, a suburb about 18 miles north of downtown Miami. Note the high rises are widely separated (parking lots, landscaping), set back far from the roads, and some of them don't have sidewalks! You can imagine how rush hour traffic can get since every one of those windows represents a car on the road.
Interesting. I've never seen such a development like this. Seems like the worst of both worlds, all the downside of density (no space, congestion, noise) with no of the positive (walkability, better mass transit, lively streets). At least you have the beach nearby.
Interesting that the density is 9600 / square mile. Usually I associated that density (at a neighborhood level not for an entire city) with an area somewhat walkable, with a mix of single family and some low rise multifamily homes mixed in. Shows the same density can mean very different places.
Interesting. I've never seen such a development like this. Seems like the worst of both worlds, all the downside of density (no space, congestion, noise) with no of the positive (walkability, better mass transit, lively streets). At least you have the beach nearby.
Interesting that the density is 9600 / square mile. Usually I associated that density (at a neighborhood level not for an entire city) with an area somewhat walkable, with a mix of single family and some low rise multifamily homes mixed in. Shows the same density can mean very different places.
Exactly! It's a unique setting...we have the density of a walkable city, but the design was done in a very 1960-70's suburban approach, complete with cul-de-sacs...only with high-rise condos instead of houses. You're right though, it is probably the proximity to the beach (and malls and country clubs) that makes people actually want to live here. In my case though, it's the rent.
Basically Le Corbusier-style "Radiant City" design, intended as free-standing high-density towers in a forest/park setting, connected by automobile expressways. Like most of Le Corbu's ideas, the theory is much prettier than the practice--typically that forest/park tends to be a lawn/parking lot, and the effortlessly smooth expressways end up in traffic jams. Density doesn't always mean walkability.
Urban - Lots of concrete... Small dogs walked on leashes. Restaurants. Subways. Vagrants. Bus Stops. Traffic lights. Tall buildings. Flower shops. Corner Stores. Boutiques. Coffee shops with outdoor seating. Taxis. Wrought Iron. Lots of very poor people and very affluent people.
Suburban - Manicured lawns. Dogs in yards. Fast Food restaurants. Cars. Cul-de-sacs. Single family houses. Shopping malls. Low Fences. Long commutes. ADT signs. Streetlights. Grids of houses. Interesting development names. 1/4 acre lots. Children. Bicycles. HOA's. Big concentration of middle class.
Rural - Farms. Cats in barns. Chickens. Cowses! A diner every 50 miles LOL. Pick-your-own. Hayrides. Pick-up trucks. Tractors. Painted houses with wooden siding. Large Lots. Horses. Horse Trailers. Bales of Hay. Cornstalks. Muddy feet. Old people. Lots of very poor people and very affluent people.
Hmm. I see more bike riders in cities than suburbs. Depends on where, I guess.
The mall near where I live has a farm with cows next to it. How do you classify that?
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. You're right though, it is probably the proximity to the beach (and malls and country clubs) that makes people actually want to live here. In my case though, it's the rent
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