Moving Together, Faster
[ November 13, 2009; 5:30 pm to 9:00 pm. ] Come celebrate this excellent combination with the Miami DDA. As part of their monthly DWNTWN Miami Concert Series Laura Izibor will be performing. She’ll rock the stage at this free concert at Bayfront Park’s Tina Hills Pavilion.
As always the show is at sunset happy hour and food and drinks are available.
For information on this show [...]
Come celebrate the completion of the Burle Marx New World Design project on Biscayne Boulevard. The sidewalks look great; they are wide, walkable and give Downtown Miami a little character and identity. So let’s rejoice in good urbanism with some bossa nova. Bossacucanova will be flying in from Brazil to play at this free event. [...]
You can view the special City Commission Meeting regarding Miami 21 here.
Ricky Williams, eccentric character and an occasional NFL running back, pontificates on the differences between Miami and Toronto in this Ethan Skolnick Sun Sentinel blog entry. For those who have not been to Toronto, it is famously urban, a wonderful model of urbanism that many North American cities, especially those in the Sunbelt, would [...]
This next segment is the beginning of a new series here on Transit Miami where we will look at certain actions or policies that will invariably counteract true urban progress.
This might be the ultimate mistake in zoning history; constructing a ½ billion-dollar opera/ballet house and later allowing a Wal-Mart to settle in next door. [...]
Today’s post is inspired by an article I read on The Overhead Wire, republished below. The successes and failures of our transit systems can be determined by the attempts we make to integrate them with the urban spaces which surround them. I typically make the distinction that our failures with metrorail has nothing [...]
For today’s Metro Monday, we once again direct you over to our friends at Streetsfilms to view an exceptional piece on Melbourne’s pedestrian facilities. It is simply amazing to see how quickly a city can change with the right policy, perhaps Miami 21 will serve as our saving grace.
There is an invaluable lesson here. [...]
