Why Miami's Geography is AMAZING

Miami is a unique city as it blew up in only 100 years, but how did it grow so fast when some cities took hundreds of years to grow to the size they are today?
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Script addition by McMuffin
“How Geography Made Miami into an International Hub”
“The Magic of Miami’s Geography”
“How a Winter Freeze Made Miami”
“How Citrus Crops Created Miami”
“How Aviation built Miami”
“How Miami became an Aviation Hub”

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  • @joshuaespinoza8325
    @joshuaespinoza8325 Жыл бұрын

    anyone else from miami watching this video? it makes me sad that we're always deleted from every single sea level rise map. its ok, we'll just grow gills. MIAMI 305 FOREVVERRRR

  • @nc1975

    @nc1975

    Жыл бұрын

    Is it because sea level rise is a faud?

  • @joshuaespinoza8325

    @joshuaespinoza8325

    Жыл бұрын

    @@nc1975 no its because florida man lives forever

  • @VictorLazlo1995

    @VictorLazlo1995

    Жыл бұрын

    @@joshuaespinoza8325 do you really believe that $#!t?

  • @joshuaespinoza8325

    @joshuaespinoza8325

    Жыл бұрын

    @@VictorLazlo1995 that we'll grow gills? never underestimate the power of florida man

  • @miamiisyours

    @miamiisyours

    Жыл бұрын

    Don't worry man. If there was really a risk of sea level rise destroying Miami, they wouldn't keep building high rises here.

  • @renechang2406
    @renechang2406 Жыл бұрын

    It has a great location but it was certain entrepreneurs who upon arriving started to change the image, infrastructure and logistics to develop into an international city that it is now. Before certain groups moved in. It was still a sleepy town. A diamond in the rough with mostly laid back retired types.

  • @figmentofurimagination457
    @figmentofurimagination457 Жыл бұрын

    Florida is well equipped to deal with sea-level rise and hurricanes so chances are close to 100% of the state (including Miami and the keys) will still be here forever

  • @ryanguilbert3425

    @ryanguilbert3425

    Жыл бұрын

    Not from what I've seen, in my 15yrs living there

  • @bruhbutwhytho2301

    @bruhbutwhytho2301

    Жыл бұрын

    Evidence?

  • @figmentofurimagination457

    @figmentofurimagination457

    Жыл бұрын

    @@bruhbutwhytho2301 There is no evidence because nothing major has happened. Until then, the state will continue business as usual. Besides, there are rumors Miami might build a flood wall if necessary.

  • @dispergosum
    @dispergosum2 жыл бұрын

    Great content as always! Caught off guard by the sudden stop though

  • @YTHistoria

    @YTHistoria

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thanks, what stop are you talking about?

  • @dispergosum

    @dispergosum

    Жыл бұрын

    Mostly just the lack of an outro after the final summary

  • @RocketGator05

    @RocketGator05

    Жыл бұрын

    @@YTHistoria Bro are you drunk? Miami was named after the native tribe Miami? The Miami are from Ohio and were forced to move to Oklahoma. Prior to our city being named Miami, When the Brickell's arrived, it was Fort Dallas. The natives to this area were the Tequesta. If I remember correct Miami is a Seminole word that translates to river with a big mouth or big mouth river. Hialeah, another Seminole word, translates to "big prairie". Ever heard of the Miami Circle? Since the discovery of that site it was made law that you have to excavate whenever you tear down a building in downtown to rebuild. They found that there was an ancient city underneath the city of Miami. The Seminole and Miccosukee are runaway Creeks and slaves from Georgia and Alabama. Fun Fact: When the US govt recognized the Seminole Tribe they ignored the Miccosukee so the Miccosukee said "aight we're gunna talk and trade with Cuba" That didn't blow over too well and the US govt finally recognized them.

  • @Gymnasticsandorigami
    @Gymnasticsandorigami Жыл бұрын

    This channel will be hitting 100k in the next year. Mark my words.

  • @jlpack62
    @jlpack62 Жыл бұрын

    Miami has a tropical climate, not a subtropical climate. Just check its Köppen classification.

  • @Architect98

    @Architect98

    Жыл бұрын

    No, we have a subtrotropical climate because we’re located north of the tropical cancer

  • @jlpack62

    @jlpack62

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Architect98 You are incorrect. Look at the Koppen climate map. The Koppen Climate map doesn't care where you are. It cares what sort of climate you have. This is how California can have a Mediterranean Climate while certainly not being there.

  • @toornomishra776
    @toornomishra776 Жыл бұрын

    Great video but slight correction to your intro -- Singapore has developed in far less than 100 years. Singapore only gained independence in 1965 and at the time was poor, underdeveloped, and lacked any natural resources.

  • @fk319fk
    @fk319fk Жыл бұрын

    Nice mix of story and stats

  • @YTHistoria

    @YTHistoria

    Жыл бұрын

    Thanks Frank!

  • @DadeRich720
    @DadeRich720 Жыл бұрын

    My city born n raised

  • @JoseBasilio
    @JoseBasilio Жыл бұрын

    You need to check the spelling when it comes the names of places in your slides. It takes away from what was an otherwise great video. Here are the misspellings: "San Jaun" at 7:34, and "Dominion Republic" at 8:21.

  • @JamieJobb
    @JamieJobb Жыл бұрын

    OK, but have you looked into the geology? It's a karst topography. Just ask the folks from the Champlain Towers South in Surfside north of Miami Beach.

  • @randymiller3075
    @randymiller3075 Жыл бұрын

    EVEN MORE ABOUT MY MOST BELOVED NATIVE HOMETOWN HERE IN THE SUNSHINE AND FREEDOM AND LIBERTY LOVING SOVEREIGN STATE OF FLORIDA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @BTman58
    @BTman58 Жыл бұрын

    So no talk of how Coke a Cola help to build Miami?🤣

  • @robm4469

    @robm4469

    Жыл бұрын

    Cocain drug lords. Sea level rise and hurricanes.

  • @miamianz
    @miamianz Жыл бұрын

    its beaches are one of the corners of the bermuda triangle lol.

  • @robm4469
    @robm4469 Жыл бұрын

    Miami is hot as hell all year long. Mild temperatures my ass 🤣 🤣 🤣

  • @Dcovington

    @Dcovington

    Жыл бұрын

    Hot as hell, that humidity is no joke

  • @elevenb6967

    @elevenb6967

    Жыл бұрын

    It's only hot as hell all year if you're from Nunavut. Its lowest low temperature this year (January) was 44F. Uhm, not exacly what you'd call "hot as hell". But, okay. -_-

  • @thehonestdoctor3590

    @thehonestdoctor3590

    9 ай бұрын

    November through May it's nice ☀️☀️

  • @dompineda9189
    @dompineda9189 Жыл бұрын

    Hey where ever General Tso go I go ! Hey pretty girl hand me a yellow bird !

  • @orlandodouglass8793
    @orlandodouglass8793 Жыл бұрын

    Miami has a tropical climate not a subtropical climate. Please do better research before making a video.

  • @elevenb6967

    @elevenb6967

    Жыл бұрын

    Maybe you should take your own advice, genius. You're wrong. Please look up the difference, and get back to us. smh

  • @antoniodiaz1646
    @antoniodiaz1646 Жыл бұрын

    HABANA WAS PANAM HUB

  • @truestory2227
    @truestory2227 Жыл бұрын

    Weren’t rich people buying land in nearby neighborhoods that are higher above sea level???

  • @RocketGator05

    @RocketGator05

    Жыл бұрын

    Ever heard of South Ridge in South Miami or Pine ridge in Broward? There's a thin narrow ridge spanning the length of the eastern shore of Florida from Around Cocoa Beach to Florida City. East of it is beach and brackish water, West of it is the Everglades, both of which were historically inundated with floods and standing water. Developers, Big Citrus and Big Sugar destroyed the natural ecosystem getting the urban sprawl you see today.

  • @jimmywest8684
    @jimmywest86842 жыл бұрын

    Not one mention about sea level rise?

  • @Yarmox

    @Yarmox

    Жыл бұрын

    South Florida and most seaside municipalities can build faster then that water is rising, but between pictures from 1970s and now of the shoreline dont show too much different. Supposedly its around 5 inches of growth.

  • @jimmywest8684

    @jimmywest8684

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Yarmox idk, the deconstruction of that condo in seaside was pretty fast.

  • @Yarmox

    @Yarmox

    Жыл бұрын

    @@jimmywest8684 you mean Surfside? That building was built with really shoddy construction by people that funded the Miami shoreline at the time with drug money. The maintenance and code that should’ve addressed its long time corrosion in the garage was never done. I assume youve never been to Florida.

  • @njv1234

    @njv1234

    Жыл бұрын

    yeah he mentioned billions of dollars in new construction in south florida right on the beach because climate change is a fraud

  • @jimmywest8684

    @jimmywest8684

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Yarmox yeah I've got enough meth gators in my life. Don't think I need to visit. Lemme know when when the state turns blue.

  • @JYP1M
    @JYP1M Жыл бұрын

    You CLEARLY don’t live here lol

  • @robm4469
    @robm4469 Жыл бұрын

    It's location as a gateway city has also been a curse of obstacles too. There is hurricanes sea level rise and floods of immigrants from many very poor coutries near by. The deadly murder epidemic from the cocaine drug lords of the 80,s is one example. Miami is no walk in the park bro beleive me.

  • @nc1975
    @nc1975 Жыл бұрын

    Do you know the problem with miami? Hurricanes. They suck cause you don't know where they are gonna hit until they do.

  • @Distress.

    @Distress.

    Жыл бұрын

    They're actually some of the most predictable natural disasters. Nearly a week heads up. Compare that to earthquakes and tornadoes

  • @algutierrez9245
    @algutierrez92457 ай бұрын

    I will add ifbitvhad not been cuban smericsnd Miami woulf not hsve grown thanks to Cuban exiles would hsve been a small town Snd thst is s fsct. Read Miami Hersld onbhow mismiv developed Also Miami has coralbrovk which serves the coral rock to develop buildings. Time to give credit to Misni Cuban Americsns.

  • @Forgoneconclusion.
    @Forgoneconclusion. Жыл бұрын

    Public Transportation? NO! Busses that run every 30 minutes are not reliable enough for people to depend on who have to work. Tri rail is more reliable with time than Brightline, which has many accidents because the people in those areas aren't used to new train track crossings. Brightline is a very loud and rickety and you can hardly walk down the isle to get to the bathroom because of that, being over priced doesn't help them either. English speaking only is slowly being marginalized to where 70% of all jobs you need to speak Spanish too. So if you are of Hispanic descent and not Afro-Hispanic with that, you'll be fine, you'll do even better if your str8 out from a Latin communist country too.

  • @manitorres6724
    @manitorres6724 Жыл бұрын

    What specifically makes Miami's location on the southern tip o've Florida become one o've the leading cities in all the United Sates in a little over a century more so in less than a decade ? Simple ! The banks located in Hamilton Bermuda has been stealing lots and lots o've cash ! There for the Bahamas are guaranteeing a safe heaven for the remaining cash ! Source, Crowley marine merchant services Jacksonville Florida !

  • @ramakrishna5480
    @ramakrishna5480 Жыл бұрын

    Cause it's in the great America 🙄

  • @richard09able
    @richard09able Жыл бұрын

    Miami will be underwater in 100 years.

  • @elevenb6967

    @elevenb6967

    Жыл бұрын

    They said that 50 years ago. I can only imagine that, in 100 years from now, people will be saying "Miami will be under water in 100 years!" -___-

  • @brandonarkell5357
    @brandonarkell5357 Жыл бұрын

    It's pronounced as 'pen-in-syoo-luh', not as 'pen-in-suh-luh'. Ugh.

  • @elevenb6967

    @elevenb6967

    Жыл бұрын

    I love it when people post corrections, when they're wrong af. -___-

  • @cjthompson420
    @cjthompson420 Жыл бұрын

    Bruh aren’t they sinking lol. And humid af most of the year? No thank you.

  • @xoxxobob61

    @xoxxobob61

    Жыл бұрын

    Miami is not Sinking. Good Lord where do you people get this information from? It's also not Humid "most of the year". Go to NYC or DC and see how "pleasant" and humid their Summers are.

  • @Architect98

    @Architect98

    Жыл бұрын

    @@xoxxobob61 exactly

  • @Dcovington

    @Dcovington

    Жыл бұрын

    @@xoxxobob61not it’s extremely humid, you tryna sell real estate or something?

  • @xoxxobob61

    @xoxxobob61

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Dcovington The Winters in Miami are not "extremely Humid"!

  • @Dcovington

    @Dcovington

    Жыл бұрын

    @@xoxxobob61 3 months out the year it’s pleasant here. You mentioned summer. March-November it’s absolutely 90% humidity with mosquitoes active during that time. Very unpleasant

  • @brandonarkell5357
    @brandonarkell5357 Жыл бұрын

    You're using a southerner to narrate this video. The accent and dialect are not clear or understandable to many people watching this video. You could've used a standard American accent.

  • @mrtony80

    @mrtony80

    Жыл бұрын

    What are you talking about?

  • @lk7195

    @lk7195

    Жыл бұрын

    Its easily understandable. Use subtitles maybe if its difficult for you.

  • @averagetexan191
    @averagetexan1912 жыл бұрын

    Fort Worths growth is much better and bigger and frankly miami sucks anyways

  • @jayandree4361

    @jayandree4361

    Жыл бұрын

    Yeah but the street grid and the ubanism sucks there.

  • @averagetexan191

    @averagetexan191

    Жыл бұрын

    @@jayandree4361 Source?

  • @triess

    @triess

    Жыл бұрын

    @@averagetexan191 your nickname has the word “Texan” in lowercase. Also, where is your source? You stated that Miami “sucks” and that “Fort Worth’s growth is bigger and better”. I can’t see the source here.

  • @averagetexan191

    @averagetexan191

    Жыл бұрын

    @@triess fort worth is better, miami sucks, cry about it liberal

  • @AndyGarcia-ch1ci

    @AndyGarcia-ch1ci

    Жыл бұрын

    Except nobody says, man, I can't wait to go on vacation to fort worth, the weather and the water there are amazing 🤦🤣 Come on now, and Texas property taxes are out of control dawg. Literally nobody gets excited about Texas. I don't live in Miami or anywhere near it, but let's be real here. Miami is more attractive in every single way.

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