miami missing a central park. (Miami Beach, Palm Beach: construction, bill, beach)

[karl_hemingway]

I was wondering what the difference was between miami and other big cities. Manhattan has central park. Boston has the commons. DC has the lincoln memorial park. And miami has??

[Where is W?]

Miami beach. Next thread.

[bale002]

While it's true that Miami does not have one huge landmark park, it hosts a plethora of them of varying size, offering a whole range of activities from fishing to guilded-age architecture to tropical flora and fauna.

All one needs to do is research with some energy, instead of complaining lazily, and use the county's resources intelligently based on local conditions.

Miami is not the center of the universe, nor is it the epicenter of global production and trade, it is, though, a niche player in some areas and a major interregional nexus in the global circuit in terms of commerce, infrastructure, and culture.

Measure it for what it is using the proper measuring stick.

[Chrismiran]

Uhh bayfront park ***MOD CUT*** ...and dont say its not big, cuz it is

[karl_hemingway]

The closest thing that ive seen to be real park is oleta river state park which actually has a few wooded areas & small hiking trails. Miami is almost entirely void of nature.

[WINTERFRONT]

idk... I was wondering the same.

tropical park?

[Coconut1]

Well, if we're just talking about sheer size, Virginia Key is 863 acres, Bill Baggs is 400 acres, Matheson is 630 acres, and as Karl mentioned, Oleta River at over 1000 acres.

Now, if we're talking about a Central Park in that you want it to be in the city center, well, no, Miami's Downtown area does not have that- it's simply not big enough to accommodate such a thing.

With that being said Bayfront Park is quite lovely as is Margaret Pace. Once Museum Park is done I think that will be pretty nice as well.

What I am quite unimpressed with is the pop up park at the old Miami Arena. It still looks more like a construction site than a park.

[straight shooter]

Originally Posted by WINTERFRONT

idk... I was wondering the same.

tropical park?

Tropical Park is in the suburbs. I think Karl is referring to parks in the city.

[bale002]

Originally Posted by straight shooter

I think Karl is referring to parks in the city.

The City of Miami proper has a residential population of some 400,000 and hardly anyone pays attention to it outside of Downtown, Brickell, and Coconut Grove.

Miami-Dade County, which has a population of some 2,600,000 (two million six-hundred thousand - do the math), runs the city's and county's parks.

Manhattan alone has a residential population of some 1,600,000.

Washington D.C. is the capital of a continent-wide country and seat of a global empire.

Let's compare apples to apples here.

By the way, the Everglades National Park, a good part of which is in Miami-Dade County, is a park of both county and, well, national importance, hence its name. Compare that to Lincoln Memorial Park.

Nature? How about the Atlantic Ocean and, as already mentioned, Miami Beach. Can you do Miami Beach in Manhattan?

Miami has no suburbs, it is a collection of municipalities and unincorporated areas strung together by a single road network, a small strip of land sandwiched between an ocean and a swamp, then, that extends all the way up to Palm Beach County, whose main natural assets are warmth and water.

To be sure, much of it - if not most - by now is characterless concrete, nonetheless, Miami and the southern Florida region in general are known throughout the world for the way humans have combined that warmth and water with the conveniences of contemporary industrial life, and in some places here and there even with a touch of beauty.

In fact, all the better that they are scattered through the county and the region: if it ain't hard to find, it ain't worth lookin' for.

[Bjorn_Ironside32]

I don't think there's any more space to build a ''Central Park'' here in Miami.

So no.