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Originally Posted by DZH22
Those non-Miami parks are literally embedded within the cities, surrounded by a dense urban fabric. The 2 you list in Miami are already multiple miles off the mainland via a single bridge. It's radically different from the urban parks of NYC, Boston, and Chicago.
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I can understand that the Miami-area parks I mentioned aren't a part of the mainland, but Miami has them, and all the city and county has to do is to just promote them. It's tough and challenging to have a city park the scale of a NYC, a Boston, or a Chicago in a city like Miami, where land is already at a premium due to the Miami area being wedged between the Atlantic Ocean and the Everglades (another major federally protected greenspace), but Miami does need to prove it's parks even more plus the fact that those parks are practically on islands should be a plus, not a minus. I understand that tourists will prefer to go to Miami Beach, Brickell and Little Havana, but those parks can be green gems in Miami's already adorned crown.
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Originally Posted by DZH22
For instance, within 5 minutes you can walk from the densest built-up area of Boston (Downtown Crossing) to the middle of Boston Common. From downtown Miami it looks like the walk to Virginia Key Park (the closer of the 2 you listed) would be at least an hour, one way.
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It's a tough task to create greenspace in the middle of downtown Miami, but I already see the Underline in Miami as a start, although many on here won't consider the Underline a major park. At the least, it is a trail which can lead to the three Miami-area parks I just mentioned. And the Underdeck should be able to transform Miami into a city with major greenspace from Overtown to the Miami waterfront.
The city needs to be smart on how it can further utilize it's landscape and greenspace and the Underline and the Underdeck are great starts. Hopefully, the city can expand Metrorail to all points north, south, and west and let the auto centric ideas for Miami go. That should set Miami apart from Southern cities like Atlanta, Charlotte, Nashville, Dallas, and Houston since Miami has only 36 sq mi of land and needs to utilize it's land differently compared to those aforementioned cities.