2011 APA Awards - Miami 21

National Planning Excellence Award for Best Practice

Miami 21 — Creating the Blueprint for the Miami of the 21st Century
Miami, Florida

In the past 10 years, Miami has experienced unprecedented growth. The city needed to address the city's historical sprawl and automobile-dependent and use-segregated communities. The new plan had to protect existing residential neighborhoods while accommodating downtown growth and growth along the city's commercial corridors.

For the first time ever in a major U.S. city, Miami 21 uses a form-based zoning code — a method of regulating development to achieve a specific urban form that promotes sustainable and livable communities. Such codes address the relationship between building facades and the public realm, the form and mass of buildings in relation to one another, transitions between different types and sizes of buildings, and the scale and types of streets and blocks. The code pays particular attention to interaction between the public and private realms, especially to encourage walkable and vibrant streetscapes.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• APA
• American Planning Association
• urban planning
• Miami
• Florida
• Miami 21
• sprawl
• community
• form based code
• zoning
• development
• streetscapes
• walkable

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when planing the future ghettos they don’t consider property rights or the financial impact of rezoning on property owners or mention how they plan to implement the 85% world population reduction (section 11.2.3.2 p.773 -Global Biodiversity Assessment Report AKA agenda 21)