MIAMI:

AN INTERCONNECTED WORLD CLASS CITY

Nowadays, places everywhere seem to have aspirations to brand themselves with city status

–Masterful, magical, global, cultural, cosmopolitan, sustainable, and smart. Miami today is all of the

above along with its fame for its beautiful beaches and its resort style of living.

Miami residents envision to better themselves by embracing all the anew. The truth is, just a few

years back we were still missing that city status.

Miami is a growing city now having enough people to justify a passenger rail system. The city has

recently announced the projected All aboard Florida, the first time in decades that a privately owned

company in the U.S. will build and operate an express passenger rail system. This new rail system will

interconnect Miami and Orland.

The definition of a city has been long debated. Writer Richard Sennet says, “A city is a place where

strangers meet; where new ideas are formed in a public space.”

Miami fits his description. With All Aboard Florida on its way to offering better conditions for

human existence with this new transportation system – it can be said with mighty force that we are

indeed becoming a world-class city.