Backyard pools

Emergent Urbanism reports on a different type of subdivision. Miami’s outer suburban subdivisions apparently must have their own reservoirs. Looks odd from a satellite.

Meanwhile Miami-Dade County is experiencing a backlash to expand the city’s Urban Development Boundary (UDB). A group of 80 councils and community groups have lent thir support to Hold The Line. The newsy Hold The Line website states in a white paper that, “the building industry is focusing on affordable housing as a way to fortify its arguments to move the Urban Development Boundary.” The group s focussing on ways to make increased density of the existing city a reality. All sounds slightly similar to the much larger mooted expansion of the Urban Growth Boundary in Melbourne, except that we don’t have a lobby group like this. Pity.

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Posted by Peter on 30.07.09 in urban planning