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Category Archives: Land Use

Understanding Miami’s Metrorail Land Use

Featuredby Matthew Toro 7 Comments

Miami’s rapid transit Metrorail train system currently consists of 23 stations running along a nearly 25-mile elevated, heavy-rail, dual-track corridor. Opened in May 1984, Metrorail is operated and maintained by […]

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Governance + Politics, Land Use, Maps + Geospatial, Parks, Population, Sea Level Rise, Transportation, Urban Nature, World City

Maps: Miami Sea Level Rise: 1-6 ft

2014/04/21by Matthew Toro 2 Comments

These maps were created in 2013 as part of the High Water Line | Miami project/movement. They illustrate sea level rise at one-foot intervals ranging from one to six feet. The […]

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Governance + Politics, Land Use, Population, Sea Level Rise, Transportation, Urban Nature

City of Miami Elevation Exaggerated 50X

2014/04/15by Matthew Toro 2 Comments

As experienced at our human-scale on a regular, day-to-day basis, the topography of Miami is perceived as generally flat and undifferentiated. We have no great rolling hills or valleys or […]

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Land Use, Maps + Geospatial, Sea Level Rise

Meet the UDB

2014/04/14by Matthew Toro Leave a comment

As a constantly changing urban region, greater metropolitan Miami must reconcile the seemingly opposed pressures of population growth and real estate development with environmental conservation and municipal service delivery. Growth management […]

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Governance + Politics, Land Use, Maps + Geospatial, Population, Transportation

Land Use in Miami-Dade County

2014/04/10by Matthew Toro 3 Comments

I recently created some Miami-Dade County land-use maps for another fantastic Miami-based blog: TransitMiami.com. Transit Miami is an online web journal dedicated to Smart Growth-oriented land-use policies, and multi-modal transportation […]

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