Miami Named America's Cleanest City (Jacksonville, South Beach: landscaping, neighborhoods, live)

[illini84]

I can't even fathom that Miami is said to be cleaner than cities like San Francisco and Chicago...I always pictured Miami as one of the dirtier cities I've lived in. I suppose the air quality is probably better since it's on the coast, but I think there is definitely more trash and general scum on the streets than many other cities. Thoughts?

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Miami Named the Cleanest City in America (http://www.miamigov.com/cms/comm/1724_4905.asp - broken link)


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[noland123]

I think Miami has some of the best air quality I have ever seen . I think Miami is cleaner and definitely more modern than most of the cities in the Northeast. Miami doesn't have smoke blowing industry and pollutants like other big cities and as far as car emissions the weather patterns blow all of that out of the city. I think Miami is fortunate to not be surrounded by hills or valleys and as for the State of Florida there is no off-shore drilling which keeps the coastlines clean and the drinking water safe.

I don't see a lot of trash in the streets of Miami as I do see alot of cars parked on them and parked in yards. Maybe, in the slum areas of Miami there will be trashy areas but that would be like anywhere else on a day-to-day basis.

So I feel it is a fair ranking for Miami and kudos to the city as I feel Jacksonville shouldn't be in the top 10,I always felt this was a dirty polluted industrial city and trashy looking city. It seems where ever you go in this city there is trash on the ground.

[TannerMan]

If you come from the northeast or anyother older city you notice the cleanliness in the roads, the blue clear skies with green palm trees might give an illusion that its cleaner than it really is but everything is newer and most of the area is well kept. San Francisco is beautiful but anything but clean, Chicago while beautiful and sometimes clean is still heavily industrialized and theres a stench people smell and just a look thats not clean. The ranking also took into consideration what the city is doing to clean up streets and neighborhoods and Manny Diaz has won awards for his initiatives to clean up Miami..

[illini84]

Good points. It's great to see Miami come out on top for once

[diddiyo]

don't wanna spoil the fun, but...

[kevinkagy]

I think it's a fair ranking. Compared to other American cities, Miami has the cleanest air all year round, clean streets, clean water and lots of manicured landscaping. Just look at our expressways and our roads, there's always trees or in the process of being planted. I've also read that Manny Diaz's programing of cleaning up the city in going green, recycling and urbanization is the largest in the country.

Just look at Downtown for example, they're starting to make Brickell Avenue more pedestrian-friendly by adding more shade trees (not palms), clean the sidewalks and streets, and adding pavers to all of Brickell. Plus, they're redoing Bicentennial Park amongst many other parks in the Miami-Dade Park Plan that's underway.

In cleanliness, Miami ranks the best.

[Miami_Dan]

WOW, I am amazed. I lived in Miami and the Gables for 3 years and thought the city was the typical 50s outdated sidewalks, roads, side streets, poorly coordinated neighborhood developments, beat up buildings of most East Coast cities (except the building boom that is transforming the city), but I thought the visible trash along the streets far exceeded anything I ever saw in Phoenix/Las Vegas. How about that 'Thug Weekend Music Fest' in South Beach every year where 800 rappers get arrested and the streets look like New Orlean's with a bad Marti Gras hangover. I definitely agree on the sky, that was awesomely clear every day. Brownfield, waste water treatment, etc. is not obvious to the untrained eye - Forbes must be right! PS - offshore oil drilling is not the kind of contamination they are referring to..... S. Florida should be focussing on the everglades = the widest fresh water river in the world and your drinking source.
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[intelfan11315]

Coming from Michigan, Miami looked very clean! I've been through 12-15 states and was by far most impressed with Miami and San Diego. The Denver and Boulder area was not near as impressive and is said to be and did not look near as clean and "kept up" as Miami.

[illini84]

i guess i'm ultimately mixing "clean" with "poor quality". i rarely see trashcans on the streets and the roads and sidewalks here are the worst quality i've seen in a long time. i love to run outside, but am always dodging through cars racing 50 mph down the street since there are no sidewalks (or sidewalks go a block, then stop). i rarely see people bicycling or walking...always in a polluting automobile...but i guess air and water quality is what is measured here...i think a clean city goes hand in hand with an aesthetically appealing city, but i wouldn't call miami that (except for the beaches and a pretty skyline).

[diddiyo]

Originally Posted by illini84

and a pretty skyline.

so, i guess you reaaaaally like cranes then?