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Downtown children are zoned based on the neighborhood they live in within Downtown roughly split into Brickell Central Business District (CBD) and Arts & Entertainment District/Edgewater, Data is from the CIA World Factbook compiled in 2017:, The idea of a national park for the Everglades was pitched in 1928 when a Miami land developer named Ernest F Coe established the Everglades Tropical National Park Association it had enough support to be declared a national park by Congress in 1934 it took another 13 years to be dedicated on December 6 1947 One month before the dedication of the park a former editor from the Miami Herald and freelance writer named Marjory Stoneman Douglas released her first book titled the Everglades: River of Grass After researching the region for five years she described the history and ecology of the South Florida in great detail She characterized the Everglades as a river instead of a stagnant swamp the last chapter was titled "The Eleventh Hour" and warned that the Everglades were dying although it could be reversed. 1960 935,047 88.9% Miami is home to some of the nation's best high schools such as Design and Architecture High School ranked the nation's best magnet school MAST Academy Coral Reef High School ranked 20th-best public high school in the U.S. Miami Palmetto High School and the New World School of the Arts M-DCPS is also one of a few public school districts in the United States to offer optional bilingual education in Spanish French German Haitian Creole and Mandarin Chinese, Typical summer afternoon thunderstorm rolling in from the Everglades, During the mid-1930s the Art Deco district of Miami Beach was developed Also during this time on February 15 1933 an assassination attempt was made on President-elect Franklin D Roosevelt While Roosevelt was giving a speech in Miami's Bayfront Park Giuseppe Zangara an Italian anarchist opened fire Mayor Anton Cermak of Chicago who was shaking hands with Roosevelt was shot and died two weeks later Four other people were wounded but President-elect Roosevelt was not harmed Zangara was quickly tried for Cermak's murder and was executed by the electric chair on March 20 1933 in Raiford Florida. Notable alumni By the early 1940s Miami was still recovering from the Great Depression when World War II started Though many of the cities in Florida were heavily affected by the war and went into financial ruin Miami remained relatively unaffected Early in the war German U-boats attacked several American ships including the Portero del Llano which was attacked and sunk within sight of Miami Beach in May 1942 to defend against the U-boats Miami was placed in two military districts the Eastern Defense Command and the Seventh Naval District, Main article: Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan Population TAME's United States offices Extended systems of underwater caves sinkholes and springs are found throughout the state and supply most of the water used by residents the limestone is topped with sandy soils deposited as ancient beaches over millions of years as global sea levels rose and fell During the last glacial period lower sea levels and a drier climate revealed a much wider peninsula largely savanna While there are sinkholes in much of the state modern sinkholes have tended to be in West-Central Florida Everglades National Park covers 1,509,000 acres (6,110 km2) throughout Dade Monroe and Collier counties in Florida.[citation needed] the Everglades an enormously wide slow-flowing river encompasses the southern tip of the peninsula Sinkhole damage claims on property in the state exceeded a total of $2 billion from 2006 through 2010 Winter Park Sinkhole in central Florida appeared May 8 1981 it was approximately 350 feet (107 m) wide and 75 feet (23 m) deep it was notable as one of the largest recent sinkholes to form in the United States It is now known as Lake Rose the Econlockhatchee River (Econ River for short) is an 87.7-kilometer-long (54.5 mi) north-flowing blackwater tributary of the St Johns River the longest river in the U.S state of Florida the Econ River flows through Osceola Orange and Seminole counties in Central Florida just east of the Orlando Metropolitan Area (east of State Road 417) it is a designated Outstanding Florida Waters; Plantation Structure of county government 1930 214,830 222.8% 4.2 Tourism and conventions, Water and Sewer Department 8 References.

. Law government and politics 9 8973 3.7.4 Medical Library 6.5.3 Everglades Agricultural Area Cape Florida Light a lighthouse on Cape Florida at the south end of Key Biscayne in Miami-Dade County Florida Constructed in 1825. The Royal Caribbean International headquarters at the Port of Miami FIU is the largest university in South Florida the second-largest in Florida and the fourth-largest in the United States by enrollment Total enrollment in Fall 2016 was 55,112 students including 8,770 graduate students According to U.S News college rankings and reviews 92% of FIU students live off-campus while only 8% of students live in "college-owned college-operated or college-affiliated" housing.