Miami in the 21st Century (2013, home, live)

[unclealbertt]

Where do you see the city going in the coming decades?

I've never been more excited about the city's future. Miami has really matured in the last 10 years and the groundwork has already been set in the urban core for a new powerful creative class. A lot of it is still in it's infancy but the future is bright.

PortMiami, MIA, FIU, UM are all integral to the future of the city and I think they're doing all the right things. The biggest shortfall of the city imo is public transportation, it's a joke and the local politicians need a real slap in the face.

[unclealbertt]

BRAIN CIRCULATION AND MIAMI’S FUTURE AS A START-UP CITY

The narrative of Miami’s ongoing transformation comprises various story lines, including, most prominently, the burgeoning of its artist community and cultural offerings (as chronicled in the recently released documentary Rising Tide). There’s also the less prominent stories of its increasingly vibrant music scene — attested to by our list of the Top 50 South Florida Songs of 2012 — and its surprisingly rich bike culture (surprising because our sprawled-out, car-centric city would seem utterly inhospitable to bike travel — and, in fact, it can be.)

But, to me, the most surprising story line is Miami’s fledgling tech industry. Consider The Next Web’s recent blog post, “Awesome Offices: Inside 8 fantastic start-up workplaces in Miami” — who knew there were two such places, let alone eight? And it’s not as if these “awesome” workplaces are sitting empty. There’s the web-as-TV start-up Gui.de working out of a Midtown duplex, the expert video chat platform LiveNinja running from a Wynwood office, and the online music-streaming service Senzari operating in Brickell. Also in Wynwood is The LAB Miami, a 10,000-square-foot space that recently hosted a Wayra hackathon.

Of course, despite these green shoots, Miami is no Silicon Valley. But these promising first steps conjure a future in which the city takes it place alongside San Francisco, New York, Boston, and the other tech hubs as an urban incubator of innovative technology and game-changing ideas. With an eye on that future, urban studies expert and part-time Miami resident Richard Florida partnered with The Atlantic (where he is a senior editor) and the Knight Foundation to organize Start-Up City: Miami, “a forum that will bring together leading entrepreneurs and tech experts for a series of conversations about Miami’s innovation ecosystem.” Hosted at the New World Center on Wednesday, February 13, the event will “feature a series of roundtable discussions and one-on-one interviews with top voices from the tech, design, urban planning, and start-up communities, including Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos, and Steve Case, co-founder of AOL.” Though registration for the event is now closed (it reached audience capacity), you can live stream the programming online.

[unclealbertt]

Nice video: MIAMI WANTS TO BE THE NEXT BIG START-UP CITY

[tinytrump]

send some one to tampabay

[ruski]

Miami is a network hub for the Caribbean and Latin America, so it sits on a big network pipe. Only natural for start-up tech companies to sprout. However this has been a long road. They already sprouted once before in the late 90's and early 2000's, but then things got quiet.

[unclealbertt]

Originally Posted by tinytrump

send some one to tampabay

What do you mean?

[Coconut1]

Originally Posted by unclealbertt

I've never been more excited about the city's future. Miami has really matured in the last 10 years and the groundwork has already been set in the urban core for a new powerful creative class. A lot of it is still in it's infancy but the future is bright.

Ditto.

While NYC or Chicago are nice, they're done. Sure, there's new things going on all the time, but the new marks that individual, average people are making are far and few between these days. The big history there has been made (yes, areas like Brooklyn are still impressionable but for the outside world the big history is mostly in Manhattan which is what's done and most everything else is brushed under the rug.)

Miami is so young and underdeveloped for the iconic name it holds, that to be able to get in on the ground floor like this and make your mark on the city which has the potential to go down in history is very exciting.

[tallrick]

When the US dollar fails, the eventual future of Miami is what Detroit is today. If Latin America does succeed (which I hope it can) it will only be possible if they can keep their capital at home and not have it flow to a place like Miami to be frittered away on nonsense, Miami is already overbuilt and relies on a bloated government and an international drug trade to survive. Once the US dominance worldwide falters, there will be no more excess dollars to keep the wast afloat.

[unclealbertt]

You're nuts

[ruski]

Originally Posted by tallrick

When the US dollar fails, the eventual future of Miami is what Detroit is today. If Latin America does succeed (which I hope it can) it will only be possible if they can keep their capital at home and not have it flow to a place like Miami to be frittered away on nonsense, Miami is already overbuilt and relies on a bloated government and an international drug trade to survive. Once the US dominance worldwide falters, there will be no more excess dollars to keep the wast afloat.

So are you wishing for this to happen?