Whose City is it?

Rectangular wood "shotgun" houses like this one used to characterize the West Grove. The design is thought to have come by way of the Bahamian settlers from Africa. The way the rooms run in a self-ventilating line from front to back, like the sightline of a shotgun, may have inspired the name. Although a few such homes have been renovated and provide affordable housing, development will raze most of them to make way for more profitable projects.

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"How can it still be that a corner of one of the busiest streets in the city, where the number of Mercedes that go by every day is in the hundreds, if not thousands, is still abandoned after 52 years? How is that possible?” asked Andy Parrish.

For an article in Saturday's Miami Herald on the history and politics of architecture and urban planning in the West Grove go here.

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