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MIAMI
''Look at what has happened to Miami. It has become a Third World country. You just pick it up and take it and move it someplace. You would never know you're in the United States of America. You would certainly say you're in a Third World country.''
- U.S. Representative Tom Tancredo, Republican of Colorado -
Well, let's see if he's right.
Windows Live Local very recently added bird's eye coverage of Miami, so I collected sprawl pics for it right away.
You can these were taken not too long after a hurricane (I forget which one it was) because the damage is quite aparrent in many of these pics.
In particular, you can see blue tarpolins atop many roofs where the wind blew all or parts of people's roofs off. However, I'm still a tad confused, because there seems to be a few houses which appear to have had blue roofs anyway - maybe??
Otherwise, one of the main things I noticed from this sprawl set was how much more red/orange roofs you get in this part of Florida compared to Orlando or Jacksonville. Even Broward County didn't seem to have such a preponderance of red roofs.
Anyway, on to the pics.
Hmm. Doesn't look like a 3rd World country here.
Otherwise I do see 2 houses with blue/hurricane roofs.
If this is a 3rd World country, it looks pretty nice.
Your local favela.
More slums.
Shanties.
Lots of hurricane damage here. You can tell the older sprawl has more hurricane-damaged roofs.
However, this is one of the ?? ones I mentioned above. Some of these roofs look like they're *supposed* to be blue (???) Can any of our Miami forumers tell me if there are/were a lot of houses in Miami that had blue roofs before the hurricane, or are these ones simply ones where they had to replace the *entire* roof with some temporary blue thingy?
Browsing through Live Local, you see there is just TONS of housing around Miami which looks just like this, and like the pic immediately above.
Just lovely.
I am almost certain I went to this mall the last time I went to Miami in 1982.
Slums and donkey trails.
Business/industrial park.
Office park and apartments.
Red roof city.
Close-up of the houses in the pic above.
Another of the uber-common type, complete with hurricane-damaged roofs. If you want to know what half of metro Miami looks like, this is it.
Newer stuff, with no hurricane damage.
This is one of those new developments on the far western edge of the built-up area (near the Everglades border) where they have to set aside a huge chunk of the development as open water.
More water.
And still more water.
Yay, a shopping center.
Cool development along one of the coastal waterways.
Still more of the ultra-common type, with hurricane damage. But once again, a couple of the houses in this pic look like their roofs are *supposed* to be blue (???)
Close-up of the ultra-common type. My aunt used to live in a house like this in Kendall, except that it had an enclosed pool.
Typical newer apartments. No hurricane damage.
Some newer stuff being built along the edge of a mangrove swamp. Note the several houses which appear to be under ankle-deep water!
Not sprawl. A highrise district near a mall in south Miami. Along a transit stop, too!
This was a bit north of the pic above. It's not sprawl, but it looked cool so I just had to include it.
Sprawl? Or not sprawl?
OK . . .
now we're looking at some of those "3rd World" slums. This is a fairly dumpy neighborhood in north Miami. While it certainly isn't attractive, it's a far cry from your typical 3rd World shanty. Sorry Mr Tancredo, you don't know what you're talking about.
I can't decide if these look cool in a sort-of cheesy way, or if they're just butt-ugly.
Another business/industrial park.
Enough parking?
Freeway, billboard and mobile home park. A photo set of South Florida housing wouldn't be complete without at least one mobile home park.
Definitely not sprawl. But I just couldn't resist.
More ultra-common stuff, with somewhat bigger lots. And a school.
Sprawl? Or not sprawl?
Ugh.
Cool patterns.
Another shopping center.
Defintely not sprawl. But check out the hurricane damage on the windows!
Houses along the beach. Sprawl? Or not sprawl?
Sprawl? Or not sprawl?
More newer stuff in western Dade County with the big water set-aside areas.
OK, here's a close-up of what I was talking about with the hurricane damage. Most of them are obviously blue tarpolins on people roofs. But the one at the bottom-right almost looks like the roof is *supposed* to be blue. Or do they just have a tarpolin covering the entire roof????
Business park along some water.
More typical apartments.
Another shopping center. Part of the sprawl, of course.
Lovely.
More "3rd World" slums in north Miami.
Beautiful!!!
Cool shot
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