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Originally Posted by bobdreamz
^ Considering that Brickell Avenue & the Brickell district was known as "Millionaire's Row" for the amount of mansions where Miami's wealthy lived that lined the street around 40+ years ago what does the author expect?
The transformation of Brickell Avenue from stately mansions to a street lined with towering skyscrapers today in over a 50 year period is quite remarkable.
To compare the Brickell area to Greenwich Village is ludicrous at best since it never developed as a dense compact neighborhood.
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Wish we still had those mansions.
The author doesn't really make direct comparisons with Greenwich Village though -- just used Greenwich Village as the ultimate example of a walkable, dense, urban shangri-la. Brickell is likely urban
Miami's most walkable residential neighborhood, yet it lacks so many of the ingredients of a place like Greenwich Village due to the structural constraints caused by high-rise "suburbs in the sky".
There is a very legitimate point here... and one that we've talked about before about Miami's more recent development many times. It is 100% accurate to call Brickell
"just a semi-walkable streetscape in the shadows of impersonal towers functioning as suburbs in the sky".
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Originally Posted by skyscraperfan23
Miami is still the coolest city.
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... in Florida