Gold Coast (Florida)

Coastal areas of Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach Counties

The Gold Coast is a region of the U.S. state of Florida. It is located on the Atlantic coast of South Florida, including the cities of Miami, Ft. Lauderdale and West Palm Beach though its definition has changed over time. One of the best known of Florida's vernacular regions, the name is a reference to the wealth and ritzy lifestyle said to characterize the area.

History

The Gold Coast is one of several "Coast" regions found in Florida, including the Space Coast, Treasure Coast, Emerald Coast, Nature Coast, Forgotten Coast, the Sun Coast and the First Coast. Like several of the others, it seems to have originated at the time the area first saw major growth.^[1] It was well established at the time of a 1982 survey of Florida's vernacular regions by Ary J. Lamme and Raymond K. Oldakowski, who indicate that the name denoted "the high cost of living in these areas, as well as the supposedly glittering lifestyle".^[2] At that time, survey respondents from Dade County (now Miami-Dade) in the south through Broward and Palm Beach Counties as far north as Martin County identified their area as the Gold Coast.^[2]

A 2007 survey by the same authors found that the Gold Coast was still one of the best known of all of Florida's regions across the state, but that it was then restricted primarily to Miami-Dade and Broward Counties, corresponding to the Miami-Ft. Lauderdale area. People from Palm Beach and Martin Counties chiefly identified their areas as part of a new region, the Treasure Coast, which also included St. Lucie and Indian River Counties. Lamme and Oldakowski note that Palm Beach County remained part of South Florida and the Miami metropolitan area. They suggest that negative connotations that had developed for the Gold Coast and a desire to distinguish the area conceptually from Miami may have led to the emergence of the Treasure Coast.^[2]

The Gold Coast, when compared with the image above, shows that the region is primarily made up of the long urban cluster along Florida's southeastern coast, the Miami metropolitan area

Notes

↑ Lamme & Oldakowski, pp. 330–331.
1 2 3 Lamme & Oldakowski, p. 331.

References

Lamme, Ary J.; Oldakowski, Raymond K. (2007). "Spinning a New Geography of Vernacular Regional Identity: Florida in the Twenty-First Century". Southeastern Geographer (University of North Carolina Press) 47 (2): 320–340. doi:10.1353/sgo.2007.0029.

External links

Florida Gold Coast travel guide from Wikivoyage

Miami metropolitan area

Largest city	Miami

Counties (by population)	Miami-Dade Broward Palm Beach

Cities and towns 100k-250k	Coral Springs Fort Lauderdale Hialeah Hollywood Miami Gardens Miramar Pembroke Pines Pompano Beach West Palm Beach

Cities and towns 25k-99k	Aventura Boca Raton Boynton Beach Coconut Creek Cooper City Coral Gables Cutler Bay Dania Beach Davie Deerfield Beach Delray Beach Doral Greenacres Hallandale Beach Homestead Jupiter Lake Worth Lauderdale Lakes Lauderhill Margate Miami Beach North Lauderdale North Miami North Miami Beach Oakland Park Palm Beach Gardens Plantation Riviera Beach Sunrise Tamarac West Park Weston Wilton Manors

Cities and towns 10k-25k	Belle Glade Hialeah Gardens Lighthouse Point Miami Lakes Miami Springs Opa-locka Palm Beach Parkland South Miami Sunny Isles Beach Sweetwater Palm Springs

A list of cities under 10,000 is available here.

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