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A portion of the C-38 canal, finished in 1971, now backfilled to restore the Kissimmee River floodplain to a more natural state. An ongoing effort to remedy damage inflicted during the 20th century on the Everglades, a region of tropical wetlands in southern Florida, is the most expensive and comprehensive environmental repair attempt in history.
The 1920s brought several favorable conditions that helped the land and population boom, one of which was an absence of any severe storms. The last severe hurricane, in 1906, had struck the Florida Keys. Many homes were constructed hastily and poorly as a result of this lull in storms. [54]
Urbanization is a demographic phenomenon that results in a tendency for the population to concentrate in cities, and the thresholds that separate the urban world from the rural world vary greatly on a planetary scale: in fact, the UN's list includes one hundred different definitions of urban population. According to the 2017 World Bank report ...
Urban planners are increasingly exploring nature-based solutions such as temporary lagoons, which can store excess water during heavy rains, and green roofs that help to absorb rain and cool down ...
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Florida's many problems of high insurance, high rents and housing costs rob the Sunshine State of being that great place to live under the sun
Urban planning; Urban planning is the planning of land uses. This helps to separate lands uses that do not complement each other. For example, a green belt may be used to separate residential areas from factories. Redevelopment; Redeveloping old urban areas by planning the land uses carefully so that land is used in a better way than before.
There are a number of environmental issues in Florida.A large portion of Florida is a biologically diverse ecosystem, with large wetlands in the Everglades.Management of environmental issues related to the everglades and the larger coastal waters and wetlands have been important to the history of Florida and the development of multiple parts of the economy of Florida, including the influential ...