Metro Miami suffers from urban sprawl. I use the word “suffers” because in Car World, citizens become more inconvenienced as a result of everything being so widespread. Also, in a time of scientists and average Americans discovering the world has limited resources, Metro Miami has buried itself in a hole, and it will cost money and time to dig itself out. We are dealing with an energy crisis, having to import foreign oil from countries which have far different value systems from the United States. Miami depends on this oil to support its design and infrastructure. While some people are disconcerted with the possibility of reaching peak oil times, Metro Miamians should also be concerned with social disconnection as a result of our lifestyle.
Since the fifties, baby boomers have played a part in changing the American way of life. They changed housing styles, from the semi-urban home with a front porch to the air- conditioned house with an unwelcoming façade, garage, and drive-way up front. This contributed to the “everyone- mind- your- own- business” credo, which Americans live by. This environment led to a lack of conversations between different classes of people, and even deeper misunderstandings between different generations, particularly adults and adolescents. It is nothing new that teenagers are the victims of suburbia (along with mothers, the poor, and the elderly). The biggest issue since the creation of today’s suburbs is the absence of place.
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