The Problem With America’s Next Megacity

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[Tokyo_]

Fun fact the buildings that you see currently are about the tallest that they will ever be since the FAA set a 1049 ft limit since the airport is in such close proximity. Miami have tried to up the limit but the FAA has been very strict and have not allowed them to.

[tdyerwestfield]

The rise of Miami, or Atlantis as it'll soon be known.

[MaidenHell]

I'm almost certain that companies like Amazon and Microsoft are well aware of the climate change risks to affect Miami in the coming 100 years. These companies are big enough to take advantage of the low taxes and cheaper property for short term gains but can easily relocate when the time comes. But I could be wrong so time will tell.

Fantastic video. I thought Miami was looking a lot more built up in recent videos, not the city that I remember from TV and movies back in the '80s, haha

[Droxal]

I visited Miami for the first time this year, and I was the most shocked by how suburbanized it was for such as huge city. I talked to some people who lived there who commute 1 hour+ each way to work just because of traffic. I don't know how a "global city" can be so poorly designed.

[kallentyler]

Other than downtown's massive luxury condo towers, miami is almost all single family sprawl. Because there's an urban growth boundary, it really can't sprawl out nearly as much anymore. The rent crisis is really a density crisis because we have chosen to dedicate the vast majority of land in the metropolitan area to low density housing. We need to legalize missing middle housing

[jonboz]

The aerial shots in this video are incredible. I was born in Miami in the 80's and saw all these different evolutions. This latest one, by far, seems the most frenzied.

[jonahlindenbaum]

I lived in Miami my whole life and worked at a real estate development company in downtown. We developing high rises in brickell . There is NO CONERN for the environment or climate change.

[mr.a.]

This is a video I never thought I’d see. These buildings are in my backyard! Most videos are places I’ve never been. However I walk by these buildings weekly. The flooding is a real issue. Whenever we get large storms, many streets get insanely flooded.

[RyanBlockb]

Miami is built on porous limestone like most of the state. The water just rises from the ground with the tide. No ocean wave needed. Look up "Miami king tide".

[soonbabies]

You need to talk about the problem with single family zoning in Miami, the reason why rent has increased so drastically is in part due to transplants, but another variable is that upwards of 93% of south Florida is zoned for single family housing.

We need more multi-use "missing-middle" housing to keep up, but that is just not profitable so the poors are forced to move, this losing the cultural identity of their neighborhoods, I.E. Little Haiti and how it's being gentrified as wynwood expands.

[nilpampalona]

I have lived in Miami the majority of my life and the current situation is alarming. Lots of traffic and wealthy people moving in, Miami is not what it used to be. Our culture has changed dramatically and locals are forced to move further from the city due to a high increase of rent up to 50% since pre COVID while wages remain stagnant. Truly unsustainable. You can feel the gentrification all over the city specially Little Haiti, Wynwood and Overtown. I miss my city, or at least what it used to be. It’s starting to not feel like home anymore…

[wheely]

interesting insight always thought this place was full of high end house's but its only just started

[murdelabop]

Miami isn't going anywhere unless they can get a handle on their transportation infrastructure. Miami traffic is already insane. A friend of mine who used to live there left after an incident in which he got stuck in gridlock and took 9 hours to go 3 miles. And this kind of gridlocked traffic is a daily occurrence in Miami. In order to gain the status of a "major city" Miami will have to vastly improve mass transit to give people options other than cars to go anywhere.

[sway]

I live in Miami and just with 2min of rain it floods really bad…Also the rent went up really high I went from paying 1800 for 2/1 to 2950 for the same room..a lot of people moved to Miami and traffic got really bad traffic before starts at 5 and now it starts at 2 is super crowded but I’m born and raised in Miami and I love Miami but these new people that moved to Miami are killing Miami

[nikobelic]

Live in Miami
You can see the construction and yeah… there has been a boatload of growth here in my 22 years of life

[jayyswrld]

It blows my mind how low miami is ranked for biggest cities. It looks pretty big. I went last year and fell in love with the vibe

[eaopanama]

My childhood growing up in Miami was fun and have no regrets. It's a party city no doubt. I moved out of there about 6 years ago, which I'm glad I did. Traffic is horrendous and keeps getting worse, too many people, and life is expensive. Just a great place now to visit IMHO. It will be if not already, a place only the rich can afford unless you already own your home there.

[girlllbyee]

Miami traffic has gotten way worst over the past 10 years. I remember in 2018 it took me 20 minutes to get from my house to work, now it takes me an hour due to traffic. The cities roads that were built years ago did not anticipate for the population increase to become so dramatic.

[chrisdooley]

Amazon already left two planned areas in Miami and built structures in Port St. Lucie about 2.5hrs north. I actually lived in Brickell once and while it was fun being downtown in the middle of everything it was blistering hot even at night and things were laughably expensive. You got to be very very wealthy to enjoy Miami

[martentanke]

US should build more sea barriers like here in Holland, no need to cut off the ocean with retractable dams, but the cost of that will probably astronomical, but it saves the city